With a Christmas cake to ice and games to play with an excited grandson, I only have time to wish you and your loved ones a happy and peaceful Christmas and all the very best in the coming year. Your blogs and your friendship enrich my life immeasurably.
Image: Adoration of the Child by Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch 16th century) via Wikipedia
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda, and enjoy your own celebrations.
DeleteHave a very blessed Nativity season, with our love and sll good wishes.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Helva. Just snatching a few minutes while the house is quiet. :-) All good wishes to you and P and see you in the New Year.
DeleteEnjoy the peace...mayhem will certainly be resumed shortly.
ReplyDeleteAll good wishes to you and your family.
I am and it will, Fly. Talk about the lull before the storm. :-) Have a wonderful tropical Christmas with your visitors.
DeleteMerry Christmas to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan. I shall think of you with your midsummer Christmas.
DeleteMerry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteAnd the same to you, Rosaria.
DeleteChristmas with a grandchild - now that's a great way to celebrate. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteAnd New Year with the other two still to come. :-) Thanks, Pondside, and enjoy your own festivities.
DeleteHave a wonderful Christmas Perpetua. Lots of love xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ayak, and the same to you. I bet your little grandsons must be sky-high with excitement by now. :-)
DeleteMerry Christmas. You're doing it just right.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Murr and the same to you. I'm taking refuge from being thrashed repeatedly at Connect4. :-)
DeleteEnjoy every minute of your Christmas Perpetua. It sounds like fun, if exhausting.
ReplyDeleteVery best wishes for a happy time and a peaceful healthy New Year to follow.
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Thanks, Ray. I intend too. :-) Grandson#3 is great company, even though he's already better at most games than his poor old Grandma. Wishing you a peaceful and happy Christmas.
DeleteHave a wonderful Christmas Perpetua.... and thankyou for enriching my life this year. Fondest fondest wishes Janice x
ReplyDeleteThank you, Janice. I do wish you and Mark a particularly happy and peaceful Christmas and the very best of New Years. May 13 be a lucky number for us all. Hugs Pxx
DeleteI truely enjoy your blog, and want to wish you a wonderful Christmas. May your days be filled with love, peace and joy.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bonnie, and the feeling is reciprocated. Wishing you a very blessed Christmas and a truly good New Year.
DeleteWishing you and yours a very happy Christmas and a healthy, hope-filled New Year. I look forward to reading your continuing adventures 'in transit' again soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Catriona. Christmas is a busy time for you, but I hope that it is a happy and blessed one. May 2013 be a good year for you and the Gathering Place.
DeleteI hope your Christmas was wonderful, Perpetua, and your grandson had fun with his games. It is Christmas Eve here, close to midnight now. I'm feeling tired but peaceful with the beauty of this season. Penny
ReplyDeleteThanks, penny. It's Christmas morning here and I'm just checking my email before going downstairs to start helping with Christmas lunch, our son being the main chef this year. :-) The games were to occupy Grandson#3 until Christmas arrived - now to see what new ones Father Christmas has brought for him....
DeleteEnjoy your day when it begins.
I hope you have had a wonderful day filled with family and laughter. Mine has been quiet and peaceful with a lovely walk along the beach, a chat with friends and lots of chocolate!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sian. I'm glad you've had such an enjoyable day. Ours has been lively and a lot of fun, with a very long game of charades after our very late lunch. We're all heading upstairs now for an early night after a very late night yesterday followed by a pretty early morning. :-)
DeleteMerry Christmas! Now begin the Twelve Days of frolics and feasting! Well, perhaps not for the whole twelve days - we'd all be shattered (and enormous) - but I do find it a cheering thought that Christmas Night is the beginning of Christmas, rather than the end as the radio and newspapers seem to suggest. I hope that your grandchildren allow their granny some down time in between the fun and games tomorrow, and that you have had a very happy day.
ReplyDeleteAnd a very merry Christmas to you too, DB. I bet there are no Easter eggs at Castle Beastie as there were in some of the supermarkets on Christmas Eve! We had a lovely time yesterday, thanks, and I've always loved these days after The Day itself. It's still very much Christmas here, as it will be when we head north on Friday to spend New Year with DD and her two sons. Only one grandson here at DS's, though he generated enough excitement and did enough charades yesterday for half a dozen. :-)
DeleteHere's hoping your Christmas has been all that you hoped it would be. And I do like DB's reminder that Christmas day is but the start of the fun!
ReplyDeleteIt has indeed, thanks, Annie, and I hope the same is true for you. I've always been a Twelve Days of Christmas person, with the decorations only going up shortly before Christmas Day and remaining up until Epiphany. Lots of Christmas to celebrate yet. :-)
DeleteA belated Happy Christmas from me, too, Perpetua! I hope you continue to enjoy the festive season, and have a wonderful 2013.
ReplyDeleteThanks, CB, and the same to you and yours. Your greetings are not belated at all, as today is still only the second day of Christmas. :-) It's great to have you back in the blogosphere.
DeleteHappy Christmas to you & DH from both Sybille & I. I fear our Christmas card may not reach you until you return to the Welsh hills in the New Year but it will still be within the 12 days of the season as you've rightly pointed out in reply to previous comments here.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading of more of your 'in transit' experiences in 2013.
Thanks, Ricky and the same to you and Sybille. I'm sure your Christmas has been a busy one so far, but very enjoyable also. Now you can relax a bit and enjoy the remaining days of this happy season.
DeleteWe'll be in transit tomorrow to Yorkshire, but I doubt I'll have time to blog about it until we get home next week. :-)