Today it's my pleasure to welcome fellow blogger and friend Linda from Linda's Book Bag to the blog to find out a little about how she spends Christmas.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m Linda Hill and I blog about books at https://lindasbookbag.com.
I’m an increasingly wrinkly, ageing, woman from the back of beyond in Lincolnshire. As well as books I love my husband, travel, gardening, walking, cats, Bryan Ferry, chocolate, fudge and toffee as well as Bailey’s but not necessarily in that order!
What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Boxing Day when we can have champagne and bacon butties for breakfast without having to drive to collect Mum. And daft as it might sound, I love it when the Christmas and New Year Radio Times is available. I don’t watch much television but somehow that magazine gives me permission to slump in front of the telly with a tub of Roses and watch all the children’s programmes. I make a cup of strong tea, grab a mince pie and highlighter pen and meticulously go through the magazine to highlight what I want to see. I record everything and then about five years later when I haven’t had time to watch the programmes and the same film has been recorded again during the next three years I delete them all and look forward to starting again next time.
Do you have any favourite family Christmas traditions?
I’m not sure they are favourite traditions as they are great if it’s not my turn to organise them all and less fun when it is, but we have a present from the tree at lunchtime and tea time. Just something small and inexpensive. It was quite a challenge to organise two extra presents for 14 people as well as their main gifts when we were all together! We play games, all of which have prizes that need organising like:
Guess the Famous Faces – again it’s a pain if you’re the one cutting out all the photos and sticking them on big boards, but fun to do if you’re not the organiser
The throwing game - a dealer hands out cards and then calls the cards with a second pack. There are three gifts that are then stolen and thrown between players as their cards come up. Those holding the gifts when the dealer has used all their cards keep the gifts. We usually have two or three games of this so that’s another 9 presents to think of…
