Day 1369 torrential rain all day but I’m full of love ♥️

I mean where did that title even come from?!? I say it… I cringe but it’s actually very true.

It has not stopped raining all day. Not just a little bit… proper torrential thundering down rain. The sky is grey and pretty much, still seems dark. It never really got light today. It’s fully dark by 4pm if it wasn’t already.

Sooo… where to start…. I slept on the couch last night. Don’t worry there is nothing wrong other than Craig’s cold.

I was desperately trying to get to sleep before him last night.

I think I tried too hard.

I was almost panicking that I got to sleep before him. Nope too late, he’s off. I lay until 11.30 then came downstairs, read some of a book, and settled down by the light of the tree.

I slept from 12 until just before 7. Quite the thing. 🎄

We went to Lidl this morning TOGETHER…. to do a food shop. I could not tell you the last time we did that together. I wanted to go to Aldi but Craig said Lidl was closer. I like the fact both of those shops do more unusual food.

£125 later we head home and of course I have to clean out the fridges (we have two!) before I can put anything away. Another job done….and it feels good.

I’ll let you into a wee secret… we had a carton of Coconut Milk in the fridge that went off on 12th August!!! 😱😱😱

I am still loving the fact that the house is clean. I feel proud of living here rather than being stressed about the mess.

We watched Violent Night and had coffee with scones with cream and jam… or jam and cream?!? How do you do you do yours?!?

I tried it both ways… jam on first and cream on first. They tasted very different. I’m not sure I had a preference… they were all very good and it was far too much!

Violent Night is a great movie. VERY gory but still really Christmassy.

It’s the Scottish League Cup Final today and Rangers are playing Aberdeen and Rangers have just won the game. Craig is cheering, the dogs are barking… it’s all happening.

While he watched, I wrapped more presents and kept popping in and out to see what was going on.

My friend Anne was Mrs Claus across in the village hall this afternoon! She had already stared in the window and scared Craig as he had no idea who it was!! She popped in to say hello on the way home.

My friend Evelyn said she’d have called the polis 😂😂😂 (police!) I laughed out loud at that.

Calaidh’s been on good form today… lots of smiles 🫶🏼

Craig has his Christmas village all lit up.

Here are all my Christmas cuddly toys… Rudolph and Little Ted are my favourites!

Please ignore the mess on the dining table. This used to be our living room until we moved everything around… we still have the lights up on the ceiling. It looks super festive.

Once the football excitement is over I think we’ll have another Christmas movie.

Oh and the Aurora is likely to be visible all around the UK tonight but we’ve not seen the sky all day.

You need to be able to see the stars. Look North. Be in the dark and try to look through your camera on your phone as that’s how I saw it the last time.

Get Aurora spotting.

I only have 2.5 days of work left before the Christmas break. Woo hoo. Holidays are coming!

I may sleep on the couch again tonight. The Christmas tree lights shed a lovely light…. And you can hear a pin drop.

Stay safe everyone 🎄🎄🎄