I didn't eat too much surprisingly.

Turkey isn't a great favourite with us as a family so instead bought 2 chickens, stuffed them both (the neck and the cavity with my own sausage meat and apple stuffing mixture with the usual trimmings. It was sticky toffee pudding instead of Christmas pudding on my son's insistence but it wasn't the same. We had champagne to go with the Christmas meal, wine and sherry. I always have a sherry when I start the cooking somehow it makes the cooking of it go smoother.

The remainder of the chicken was used to make a curry on Christmas Sunday which to tell the truth I enjoyed more.

This year I didn't go overboard with nibbles and treats on the basis that the nearby store was open for a while the next day and at a reduced price but I was good and made sure that we had healthy food in. The same with the local pub which was open which was quite pleasant to go to so didn't really go overboard with the alcohol either.

Holiday Monday brought the Berkeley Hunt out as is the usual thing there although I hate the thought of hunting it was impressive to watch going through the town of Thornbury in all of their riding gear, I stepped out of the door and looked around to see all of these hounds heading towards me in my path, wow, I didn't realise just how big the hounds were until seeing them up close.