Emma got up early this morning to go to Tesco; whilst I secreted a christmas card for her in the house for her to find later (not much later, as her eagle-eyes are keen), and began work on my christmas card list. The weather did brighten up slightly but quickly decended into a wintery gloom suitable only for hibernation. It was a very hibernating sort of day.
After an early lea (*see entry dated 8 December) we headed out through a lowering sky with large black birds gathering in the sky with the skeletal frames of tree sihouetted against the rain, and onto the M4 into London. And so after a while we arrived at the Natural History Museum and met up with Sue and Steve and Debbie and Matt for ice skating. To say that I was nervous would be an understatement. I was terrified. The only other time that I have been ice skating was 29 years ago, when I was five and holding my mummy’s hand on pond in New York state…
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