Christmas Day 2006

Yup, it's Christmas Day morning. It's cloudy and murky, so where do we go? You guessed it. Crummock Water.

Hairy was going to go to Derwentwater and stroll there. We usually do that if the day is sunny (ish), which it has been for the past few years, but today it was murksville, Kentucky, so it was old faithful again.

To add insult to injury the S put gold tinsel on our collars. I suppose it was better than the silver tinsel and bells we had last year. I had a major photogenic moment on the fishladder wall. Hairy has entered it into a compy. Don't know if it'll win. He called it "Why am I wearing this gold stuff?"

To be fair to the H, we did actually go up Smithy's fell, and then fetch up at the fishladder. Doubly fair really as he didn't then stroll, drive or in any other way end up at the Kirkstile Inn afterwards. However, he did have his Chrimbo dinner at the Beeches Restaurant in Gilcrux. A feat which took him and the Screature over two hours! We thought we were going to miss out on the goodies but the Beeches prepared a doggy bag of the stuff the two of 'em couldn't manage, so we had our Chrimbo dinner too. Very nice it was.

Even better was to come as Hairyface cooked Chrimbo dinner on boxing day so we had two.

What do you think of the photograph? I'm not sure it's my best side. (Io said my best side was my back side, so I bit her ear. Madam!)

Here's one of the two of us to show you how silly we both look in our tinsel.