Christmas is over

We went swimming this morning for the first time this year (the pool was open at the end of last week, but for various reasons we didn't make it): feeling better for it.

We should have taken down the tree yesterday, and I offered to remove the decorations so we could take it to the tip on the way to desperance's birthday / Twelfth Night party. durham_rambler said no, we'd do that today. I was looking forward to doing it this afternoon, in a leisurely way, enjoying each ornament and all its history as I put it in its place in the box, but durham_rambler rushed upstairs after breakfast, while I was still washing up, and piled everything on the coffee table, all on his own. I feel surprisingly bereft.

(It seems he had a secret plan to go to the tip and then on to get his hair cut).

It was a great party, though.