This morning I went to the Post Office with Christmas parcels to mail out, and thankfully didn't have to queue all that long. I bought stamps for sending our Christmas cards and newsletters, which prompted me later in the day to print of a set of labels for the envelopes. This took far longer than it should have done as the computer had slowed to a crawl in the throes of updating once I'd switched on.
Yesterday, Sara sent me a video link to the broadcast by SVT, the Swedish state television service of the annual Santa Lucia dawn ceremony and concert. I played it this evening while waiting for the latest and maybe the last Windows 10 update to download and install - the process is still so disruptive that you can't work properly while it's working. It was a pleasant calming distraction.
I cooked lunch for us before going out for an afternoon walk in daylight, and watched a couple of episodes of 'Crossing Lines' again before supper. I thought the first two series were quite good, and the third series, with a substantial change of characters is even better, thanks to some good story lines highlighting several different kinds of cross border crime, and revealing some quite genuine tensions in the working of a team with different skills and of different nationalities.
Before bed we chatted with Rachel and Jas on WhatsApp. They were about the have an early Christmas celebration over in Tempe, before Jas comes to Britain with her Dad and stepmother for a Christmas-New Year visit. It's going to be great to have Jas here for New Year, but sad not to have Rachel as well.
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