Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, a Joyeux Noël and a Feliz Navidad, should you be celebrating today.
Once again, we’re staying with my parents in York for Christmas, having arrived last night. Whilst I’ve been lucky enough to work somewhere that closed at 4pm last Friday, for Christine, Christmas Eve was a normal working day. We’re here in York for a few days.
As per usual, we’re not having turkey – it tends to fall to my mum to cook Christmas dinner and she’s not a fan of turkey. Instead, we’re having pork.
Pictured above are the gifts that I bought for Christine:
- A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett (sponsored link) – a collection of his short stories that were originally published under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns. It includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman, his former collaborator on Good Omens, which was written before his accusations of sexual assault.
- Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Paul Kidby (sponsored link) – a visual guide to the characters of Discworld by the person who drew the covers of many of the books.
Yes, there’s a theme. My gift to her last year was Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (sponsored link), written by Rhianna Pratchett about her father’s characters, and required a bit of a mad goose chase around the various bookshops of West Yorkshire to find a copy. Thankfully, the glorious Waterstones in Bradford came up trumps.
I’ll have probably opened my presents by the time you read this, but I’m writing this ahead of time.
