So the highlight of Christmas? Boxing Day! We literally didn’t  move. Got hooked into a documentary about Cecil B De Mille and then snoozed our way through 4 hours of the Ten Commandments. My kids could only manage short sections without cringing at the actors, the makeup, the set and the effects. But I didn’t care. It brought me back to my childhood. Sunday afternoons in front of the fire, in our tiny ‘TV’ room. I think that terminology was a peculiarly 60’s thing in Dungiven (yes, I do come from the same village as Eioghan!) when TV’s were new and exciting things and the era of colour was still a great wonderment to us all. And now I’m waiting for a re run of Joan Of Arc with Ingrid Bergman. I wonder how bad the effects are on that one. I hope the acting is still as good as I remember from when I was six. Was it is Back and White? I just remember it as being phenomenal. Made me want to be an actress. And a heroine!

Yes, boxing day was the highlight of Christmas. 

xxxA