Sushi For Breakfast

I do not celebrate New Year if I can help it, not being in the fireworks business or a faceless BBC presenter. I was happily watching Stephen Fry swim with sharks when I was called downstairs to see Rebecca Adlington on a boat with a load of other New Years Honours people with a load of fireworks going off and people counting down to a big clock like we did before ITV Schools Programmes.

I've officially done New Year twice. Once was Millennium New Year at a friend's house, their last big celebration before the kids came along. The other was when I was about ten years old, our grandparents came round and we were allowed to stay up to midnight for the first time and we played cards all night and I was wearing my favourite T-shirt.

Now thankfully I am back upstairs watching Stephen Fry in Hawaii. Much more fun.

Well, that was quite fun. Except for my uncle spreading his rotten germs (I'm not going to his house tomorrow, and neither will anyone else if they have any sense). I had some lovely presents including:

• Julie Walters' autobiography


• Band From TV CD/DVD


• Stephen Fry In America - Book and DVD


• Space photos book and calendar


• Space shuttle pen


• NASA Space Shuttle charm bracelet


• Die-cast model of Space Shuttle Discovery


• Perfume, scented soaps & bubblebath


• Jellybeans & chocolates

The presents I got for other people were well-received, too - the pawprint pyjamas, the DVDs, the books, the jewellery, the giant chocolate bars, the flavoured olive oil.

A fair bit of TV-watching was done, too. ( Cut for anything vaguely spoilery (Doctor Who, Wallace & Gromit, The Royle Family, Blackadder) )

Christmas food was of course yum, Christmas lunch is always fabulous - my mother's specialty is roasted root vegetables, and we always cook the stuffing in shallow dishes so you get yummy crunchy bits and soft sweet tender bits. I'd bought a bottle of champagne, too, and that was very nice indeed, I had two glasses with lunch. And we remembered everything for the evening buffet (cheese, coleslaw, potato salad, dips, breadsticks all present & correct alongside the usual cold meat and salad) so plenty of yummy leftovers for Boxing Day.

Quick & simple rather than artistically accomplished....:D If you want to see something more arty by me, visit 10000pixels, my icon community, for Christmas icons and some Cuddy icons I posted last night. I'm currently working on some Greg House icons, cos I couldn't resist the hotness that is Hugh Laurie any longer. Merry Christmas!