It’s Christmas Eve 2024 here in Perth. It was 44.3C yesterday, but there’s a cool change and Christmas should be sunny and mild.

Boxing Day is a day of preparation rather than celebration at our house. Family are coming tomorrow, so there’s shopping to be done and so on, gifts to be wrapped, food to be prepped. It’s all bubbling away.

I was up at 5am and cleared my morning email, reviewed the schedule and then headed out around 7.30am with Jessica. After a visit to mum’s to drop off the ham and turkey, we headed out shopping. We had a very unfortunate bingle at our first stop, which left the car scraped and damaged. A refrigeration truck backed up, smashed the wing mirror and scraped the door. It was unfortunate and put a bit of a pall on the beginnings of the day.

Still, we managed to drop past the post office, the brother’s place, do some grocery shopping, stop home, put in the insurance claim, go out to Yahava for a morning coffee (with Sophie and Jess), more grocery shopping, lunch, and then a nap.

The house is now almost ready. Bit by bit.