Another very busy day in the little gift shop and my last day working in 2023!

I’ve had the best day.

The weather has been dismal….. so dreich and miserable but we’ve had so many lovely customers in… at times it seemed like we had no time to even breathe. As soon as we could, the kettle was on!

It’s just such a lovely time of year. (I’m not sure I have ever said that before 😂😂😂)

And wait till I tell you about last night. 😆

I was so tired when I got in….. it would have been so easy to sit down and fall asleep.

I had a shower,got my makeup on and headed into the pub for 7pm as we had a village Christmas get together.

It turns out it was a quiz…. I hate quizzes…. Am rubbish at general knowledge…. 🙄

Here I am with Rachel two doors down and Claire!

The quiz had four rounds… in one of them we had to make a Christmas decoration. Here’s our wee guy!

We did really well in the quiz and I knew loads of the answers.

Here I am trying to count how many of Rudolph’s reindeers names ended in -ER…. Not sure what seems to be wrong with my 4th finger…. I got a fit of the giggles after that.

Yup in true Julie fashion I had the best night and our team WON THE QUIZ !!

Here is the winning team with our winning Toffifee prizes!

I think this is the new thing for me. I am discovering so many things that I don’t think I want to do but I actually really enjoy.

It really is good for thought for me. I’ve lived such a quiet life recently. It’s nice to enjoy things when I step outside that comfort zone.

When I came home from work today we popped into the pub and I had 0% pink gin and slimline tonic. We had a good gloat about being last nights’ winners of the quiz!

I’m back home and as I am writing this… without a word of a lie.. Santa just stepped out a car and into the pub!!

He is with one of his Elves… I wish I’d got a better picture. He looked very real.

We’ve had a lovely Chinese takeaway tonight and are watching the new Rebel Moon on Netflix.

My feet are up… comfies on and more importantly the Christmas tree is twinkling away beside me.

A very happy Christmas Eve Eve!

Stay safe everyone 🎄🫶🏼🎄