Who is Santa?

Welcome back to another update covering a weekend and a Monday. It's going to be longer I think so let's get started.

The snow falls on Saturday morning

Low clouds over the hills

Later, blue sky and snow

Driving down the hill

Watching The Hobbit together

At the restaurant for dinner

Saturday morning I was up with Rosie early before it got light and while we were playing in the playroom we noticed that it was snowing; there were huge flakes falling and it was falling quite fast. We both got very excited and watched it for a bit but by the time we headed out to the shops to pick up a few things the snow had stopped and it never started again which was a shame. We began our Christmas tradition on Saturday as well and Rosie joined us to watch An Unexpected Journey. We didn't watch it all with her, but since then she has watched more of all the trilogy and seems to be loving it; she particularly likes the Dragon, and "Elmo" as she calls Bilbo. Sunday was another awesome day and we got more time as a family to watch more of the trilogy. Rosie had such a great time she was crying that she had to go to bed. Our visit to the restaurant was shorter than usual as it was very quiet but it was still lovely.

Lifting the tiles

Drilling a channel

Working on connecting the lights

Bekir running cables through old water pipes

Testing out my new welder

And so to today and the workmen were in and starting on running the electrics for plugs and power to the tools. This involved lifting the tiles to bring power to the island. The cracked on with this while I was out with Angela (of which more in a bit) and when we got back we found they were using the new SDS drill I'd picked up on Saturday to channel through the floor into which a conduit could be fitted. Bekir was also finishing up some work on the lights ring. I went out with Halil later in the afternoon to look at a second hand welder that was many years old and a very good bit of kit. He was happy so I bought it and Bekir also tested it and declared it a very good machine. We have a lot of welding to be done so this is good as I was borrowing a machine from Sally up until now.

All dressed up and ready

Now it is time to answer the question in the title of this update. The answer, of course, is me. I went today to play Santa Claus at Rosie's school for their gift giving and Christmas celebration. I was so very very nervous but the teachers were lovely and I managed to not ruin it for the kids. There were many more pictures taken, of course, but here I am before going down having just got dressed up.

There you have it. Thanks for reading, and back tomorrow.