Sunday 26 December 2010

A dog of a day

Christmas Day 2010 will be memorable mostly for the wrong reasons.

Ae, Hn and I linked up for a low key lunch before doing the rounds of hospitals and nursing home to visit Je, Kn and Pg. Ae and Hn were at each others throats from the outset with Ae in a morose mood which resulted in lunch being eaten (as distinct from enjoyed) in a silence only interrupted by Ae's repetitive complaints that this was the worst Christmas ever.

At the Nursing Home Ae got stuck into a man who opened the doors for us because of earlier difficulties contacting Pg on the phone all the time oblivious to the obvious fact that the man was a visiting relative who happened to be in the foyer and not a member of staff.

The two hospital visits were marginally better although Ae's mood remained a dampener. Hn decided that enough was enough by this point and made a relieved exit leaving me to accompany Ae to Rt's place for what was to be a quick five minutes long 'hello, greetings and goodbye' visit.

The mood at Rt's place was distinctly more upbeat, sufficiently so to mostly mask Ae's by now maudlin behaviour. Despite us having already eaten a meal Rt cajoled us to join his lunch which was clearly an afternoon long drawn out affair.

Watched by Rudi, a delightful English Setter...


...our five minutes visit turned into six hours of eating, drinking and improving merriment.

What the Dickens, I suppose it was a bah hum bug type of Christmas Day, past, present and future.

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