Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
Here’s a photo of Laura and Chris unwrapping presents at midnight (forgotten to wind the clock so the displayed time isn’t correct).
Christmas Eve
The last of the shopping, I bought an eighteenth birthday present for David, his birthday is on Christmas Day.
A cold Friday
More Christmas shopping, this time at Makro, it was surprisingly quiet there with loads of space in the car park.
A flat front nearside tyre on the Passat, luckily we noticed it in Makro’s car park and it was relatively easy to change as there wasn’t anyone parked next to us. Unfortunately the local tyre dealer appears to be closed until after Christmas. 🙁
Called over to see my mum.
Chris and Laura arrived from Norwich to spend Christmas with us.
A damp Thursday
Even more shopping at Tesco Extra in Talbot Green, very busy there today, plenty of minor road rage from irate people looking for parking spaces. Most of the ‘Christmas shopping’ has now been done but I’m sure we’ll be doing more tomorrow. 🙁
More work on my accounts, nearly there unfortunately the VAT man will be receiving a nice post Christmas payment from me. 🙁
A dark Wednesday
Received the contract with cheque for the reservation fee from Jennie and Jason for their wedding next year at Cardiff City Hall.
Received two print orders from the lab this morning.
A trip to the bank and food shopping at the local Somerfield.
Entering up my accounts this afternoon, trying to get everything up to date for the month end without having to do it over Christmas.
A quiet Tuesday
I visited the local Tesco with the intention of filling the car up with petrol but the gigantic queue made me decide against it 🙁
I went into Caerphilly, the car park at Castle Court was very busy but luckily I found a space on the first attempt. I did a little more shopping, it was much busier than yesterday.
I filled the car up with petrol at Morristons, no queue 🙂
Had a late lunch at my least favourite place – no prizes for guessing. The image below is taken with my Fuji F11 point and shoot compact, so easy to use compared to my professional cameras.
Called in to see my mum, she hasn’t been very well since the weekend and she still looks quite under the weather, so far she’s refusing to have Christmas lunch with anyone and wants to spend Christmas on her own for the first time ever – parents!!
VAT Return to complete this evening – one of the joys of being self employed!
A quiet Monday
Some last minute Christmas shopping in Caerphilly.
Re-configured and relocated the wireless and broadband network components and telephone lines.
A dreary Sunday
We all visited Cefn-Y-Parc cemetery this morning with Steve and Biggie who were over from Hong Kong. It was the first time that Rachel, Chris, Steve and Biggie had all seen Jame’s headstone. It was quite emotional.
Lunch with Rachel and Tiegan at the Hollybush, Chris missed out as he travelled back to Norwich with Steve and Biggie, another excellent lunch, unfortunately it’s changing hands in the new year 🙁
A cold Saturday
A fairly quiet day, still needed to install some extra software on my desktop!
Rachel, Tiegan and Chris are staying with us this evening, they arrived from Norwich around 7 o’clock this evening.
Take away from the local Indian this evening.
Another trip into Cardiff
Called in at Piccadilly Albums to collect an order of Image Book albums, Mandy is running the show single handedly today and it was very busy!
For a number of years I’ve been invited to a Christmas ‘nibbles, drinks and networking’ session at the Cardiff office of Right Coutts management consultants. Nice to see some familiar and new faces again this year.
I had a wander around the shopping centre, quite busy but the traffic in and out of the city was really heavy. The 40 mph speed restriction on the north bound section of the A470 between Cardiff and Nantgarw has been lifted, it looks like they’ve nearly finished the road works.
Had a telephone call from Jennie, who I met with at the end of last month, to say that she’s booking me for her wedding next year in Cardiff City Hall and she’s posting the cheque and the contract.