Monkey's Blog - with a little help from Alice

Christmas is coming (soon)

This version of Christmas is Coming (which Alice tidied up a bit from the original) is based on the same Stark sigil from good old HBO's magnificent Game of Thrones. See that one below.

We're quite sad that Season VII is now finished.

[Warning: there are rather a lot of references to Game of Thrones in this pre-Christmas post. If it's not your sort of thing, you can always skip the links.]


It will take ages before Season VIII appears, as they've had to do the filming later than usual, so it doesn't look like summer, when another Long Winter has just started.

Meanwhile we've been watching the whole thing all over again from the very beginning. So far we've just finished Season Two. Well, that's me and Alice: Ba finds the fights upsetting and the White Walkers far too scarey, so she has a snooze instead.

We've already had our first Xmas pressies.

No, we didn't cheat and open them early! They weren't wrappped up, just innocently lying in the jolly red bag.

Our good friend down the road - who's very into the Game of Thrones dragons - coloured this picture for us. She loves colouring, and finds it a most soothing occupation.

The pen (if you click to look at the full size image) says "Winter is Coming" together with the Stark house direwolf sigil. Aren't they magnificent beasts? In G-o-T they are real Northern Inuits breed.

Yes, it's now officially Christmas Tree time! We went babysitting (child-sitting really) to the grandchildren's and admired their huge tree and vast collection of presents. Ba! look up!

They had lots and lots of presents - some to give to friends and relatives, and some waiting to be opened by themselves on Christmas Day. Maybe there were some for us, too - but we didn't cheat and hunt for them.

I coudn't resist joining in with the decorations. Ba just thought it looked a rather long way down. You can see my super Xmas jumper properly too - it was a present last year from our Game of Thrones fan friend down the road. This year Alice gave her three different dragon bookmarks she made herself, and a surprise book. Not this one: she's ordered it for herself!

Here's our trees (plural) at home.

Please note the careful colour design of the decorations. The bigger one is Alice's, and the small one is the responsibility of Ba and myself.

If you click (oh, go on) to see properly, you can admire our outfits and the little manger scene, which is Ba's favourite decoration.

We like to have the day itself with just the three of us, so we can laze about and eat whenever we like.

The presents are all to take to Glasgow after Christmas proper - but it will still be the Festive Season, when we'll get ours from them, too.

Plus there's a special card from a friend. There's a much better view of the fold-out card and the manger scene in this carefully posed version.

Hoping you all enjoy the lead up to the Festivities in your own way, whatever that is.