264/365

I couldn't decide whether to have a picture of the amazing cheeseball or a picture of Emily all dressed up. So I opted for both.

263/365

Josh says cheers. Happy Birthday, Stacey!

262/365

Ahhh, so lovely and cold.

261/365

There's a giant Menorah in our town! Happy Hanukkah.

260/365

Molly got a cookbook for Christmas. Our goal is to make a recipe a week. Today was French Onion Soup and it was the best French Onion Soup that I have EVER tasted. I think we have another cook in the family.

259/365

The Guinness Book of World Records is partly 3D this year!

258/365

Happy Christmas!

257/365

I am not making this up! This baby Jesus was lost for the last year and I found him today when I was hoovering the living room! How weird is that?

256/365

I swear I did not set this shot up. I just looked over and noticed that the Jesus card was stuck behind baby Jesus. The card is from Auntie Kay and Uncle Michael. The baby Jesus was bought in Munich because he reminds me of my Mom's Nativity Set.

255/365

My favorite Christmas ornament. Christianity in a nutshell.

254/365

Note to self: Next year don't leave it till four days before Christmas to buy the Christmas tree.

253/365

Molly was in a play for Cadets. What would happen if Jesus was born in modern times. The answer, of course, is that St. Johns Ambulance would very kindly come and sort every thing out.

252/365

Today is all about recovering from the work do. We're still working the party hats though.

251/365

Christmas Work Do! They're singing 'I Don't Want To Miss a Thing'.

250/365

Josh came to see me at work today! And made himself right at home.

249/365

I have no words.

248/365

Yes, we have no bananas.

247/365

We survived Christmas shopping.

246/365

Christmas cards are starting to arrive! The mouse dates back to when Molly was just starting to hear and was completely obsessed with anytoy that sang or talked. He sings 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' when you press his toe. Over and over.

245/365

I bought Robert a new Santa to put on his trolley. Some low-life stole the last one. Hopefully the new one is just too ugly for anyone to want to steal. Plus Mandy is really tying it down. I think it would take a lot of effort to knick.

244/365

I'm kinda bored with this wreath. I think I need something more colorful and festive.

243/365

Found the bag of Santa toys.

242/365

OK. It may be a little bit over the top.

241/365

Putting up the Christmas decorations is quite a production. It took three people to hang this lovely foil star!

240/365

Molly organized all my photos on the computer for me. No more scrolling down to find them. Thank you, Molly!

239/365

Part of the steam engine that once supplied water to all of London. It's three stories high and still works!

238/365

Some friends of mine have had trouble finding tape in normal tape dispensers. I took this picture as proof that they exist.

237/365

I love love love Christmas lights. My friend Geeta gave me these when she moved. You can never have too many. And in my opinion colored lights are SO much cooler than white ones.

236/365

Went out to a pre-Christmas meal with my good friends.

235/365

OMG. I was woken up at 5:00 am by a beeping noise. I searched and searched for it. Eventually, I narrowed it down to the bathroom and STILL couldn't find. When James woke up at 7:00 I offered to pay him a fiver if he could find it and disable it. He found it in five minutes. It was an old watch that came from a French market about ten years ago and cost about three pounds. It was in a jewellry box on the bathroom shelf. He couldn't make it stop beeping though. Intead he managed to make it start talking as well! In FRENCH. I threw it away but could still hear it. It was still going strong when I got home so I took the hammer to it. That worked.

234/365

James bought me these ornaments at a charity shop to cheer me up. The best part is that the trumpets actually play!

233/365

I guess somebody didn't win the lottery.

232/365

Make yourself at home, Billy.

231/365

I found The Grinch at the charity shop for 99p! How cool is that? And in case anyone is wondering, this should be taken to represent the original Boris Karloff cartoon Grinch. Not that effing Jim Carrey monstrosity.

230/365

We had SEVEN five pound notes all with consecutive serial numbers in one of our tills. How strange is that? Sally thought it was a sign that we should play the lottery.

229/365

How would you answer the question 'Does this tie go with this shirt?'

228/365

Emily's home for yet another trip to the GP. This time she got an even stronger inhalor. Hopefully, that'll do the trick.

227/365

Sally and I got to stay indoors in the warmth drinking coffee while everyone else went out for a fire drill.

226/365

SNOW! And my winter jasmine is flowering in November. Mother Nature has gone mad.

225/365

Stacey and Emily are making fun of me. But they obviously don't understand the fine art of trying on handbags. Stacey's handbag says 'Debbie' on the shoulder strap. Too cool.

224/365

Flippin' Heck. It's not even Christmas yet.

223/365

Sally said the f-word.

222/365

I cleaned out my kitchen cupboards today. The winner of the oldest food product is Tobasco Sauce. Best before September 2002. People who know me will know that 2002 is the year I went back to work. Which is when I stopped using ingredients like Tobasco sauce and stopped knowing what was lurking in the back of my cupboards. It's bad, I know.

221/365

Loyalty cards are back. I hate the loyalty cards. They bring out the worst in people.

220/365

Great. Bad luck.

219/365

This is the look on Emily's face when she realized that she had phoned both parents up for a lift from the station and we'd each shown up separately.

218/365

because we haven't had a photo of Molly in more than a week...........

217/365

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

216/365

James always wins the most amazingly awful prizes at work. Today he won a swan soap dish set. It's too hideous even for me to use.

215/365

Seriously. He's still putting up lights on the SAME tree.