Boxing Day morning

 It is still dark outside and the rest of the house is asleep. I have made a coffee, let it brew and am ready for a quiet day. At least until I run a greater family Zoom quiz tonight. Yesterday was a good if different Christmas Day. Gifts were well received and we had much to be thankful for. A different day, as I already said but a good one. 

I was delighted to get some interesting reading material. The Art Deco book and garden gift vouchers were from a greater family secret Santa thing and they chose well. The bird book is to deepen my knowledge of the garden birds who have become even more important to me since Lockdown began in March. Over the summer their presence was a delight and diversion, including the nesting blue tits back again. The 1940 book is to offer scenic advice especially for a Norwegian 1807 project.

I had collected figures for my daughters to give me and I had almost forgotten about them so much so some were almost like a surprise. Firstly there are some 1807 Norwegian ski troops in 28mm , secondly some Belgians in 20mm ( possibly for Portable Wargame use or maybe skirmish games, we’ll see) and some 1/32 Finns in winter kit. Lastly two games were added to the household collection- a fun fast uno like card game we really enjoyed ( made us recall London holidays and look forward to future ones) and a detective board game we will enjoy in the coming days. I was really fortunate in my gifts.