CHRISTMAS Eve.

 Yesterday was the first sunny day for a long long time and forecasts said there's be more rain to come so Lucy and I made it out to KIMBLE as quick as we could for a ''proper'' walk.

 She's still a bit wobbly on tose hind legs and sat down a few times but it was so much better than trying to walk around the block at home which these days she often just refuses.
Sits in the middle of the road and will not budge!  Even with her old lead or the new lead and harness.

 This was different , she was raring to go! But we obviously have more training and physio to do. I took a video or 2 to show on another post.

 Still we took in the view and I said thanks for the miracle of her surviving the surgery and being able to walk at al!!! THANK YOU Lord.

 Then when we got home I watched STAR wars MOVIE # 5 : Empire Strikes Back with Annie, so relaxing I almost fell asleep! Got some but not lots of crochet done on that navy 4 ply cotton skirt!
That was started in August on the way to St Andrews.

 I also went though and threw out a large bag of papers and magazines.

 This one from 1995, a Christmas issue to inspire, now very out-dated.

What a day!

Getting ready for Christmas...

 The nativity all set up with many dachshunds in attendance, rapt to see the baby.

Crocheted snowflakes hung at the windows, no sign of real snow not with weather so unseasonably warm at 15 degrees C!

 Rudolph in window and a light up tree replaces a candle bridge this year as so many bulbs broke in the attic.

dachshund calendar for December 2015 decorated.

 
 Little crocheted Rudolph chooses the carols on classic FM

 Little drummer boy rides Rudolph number 3... Many cards this year.

 The advent calendar sewn in 1998 still going strong , even with the chewed bits when mice found their way into the attic after a new washing machine was installed incorrectly many years ago.

The Christmas dance at Marlborough with the Abingdon/ Harwell ladies.

 Oxford Lights while shopping for stocking-fillers...

 The Mummer's Play at Towersey..

 A delicious pesto and puff pastry Christmas tree baked by Miss Y today: yummy!

 We ate it while starting the STAR WARS catch up on past films exercise before we go watch the new release. This was #4: NEW HOPE - first seen by me in Portsmouth in 1977.

Not long now to the great event, the BIRTH OF JESUS.

Time flies when you are having so much fun.

Long time no posting and that is simply because life is speeding by so fast and I have had hardly any time at the computer at home, always out dancing!

 There was dancing and being filmed most recently but that is all still top secret so I will reveal a bit more late in 2016...

 We got Lucy a travel crate and she really loves it

 It collapses down into a carry-all flat pack.

 I have made a Kumihimo beaded bracelet, it's still in progress in this photo.

 I have been to PERTH , SCOTLAND on a bus with beds! Overnight travel. Amazing.

 A new dress and a skirt for dancing in

 Still losing weight even though I reached goal in November and am now 3 lbs BELOW my goal.
 And all by having the most delicious food like this breakfast and this Delia fish recipe:

 Some new hand painted Polish crockery to enjoy eating it off...

Some plates for X-mas but the wee bowl is for porridge so that's in use already.