In a tier 4 area so no guests for us (though we had actually cancelled the day before Boris' announcement due to the changing situation round here). My dad is in my support bubble, though we hadn't actually hugged or seen him indoors since the kids went back to school as he is clinically vulnerable. We got permission a while back to take the kids out of school a few days early so we could isolate before my dad came to stay on Xmas Eve.
It was lovely. Relaxed, seamless, no stress, the dinner was easy with just 5 and lots of time for Lego and board games and snacks in front of the online panto. The kids missed their cousins, but it was much easier without the crack of dawn wake up and extra stress of another family doing things ever so slightly different. Now if only Manchester United had gotten 3 points on boxing Day...
Elsewhere 8 family members across 3 households were isolating over Xmas with positive test results. Careful people but picked it up in schools and hospitals. My sister's family all had it for the second time :-( My BIL had it v.mildly first time round and no antibodies, worse this time but still ok so far. Kids just fevers and one a little cough. My sister however tested positive as part of an asymptomatic study. She had antibodies when NHS did their mass testing and she had had her first vaccination on Saturday. So that's disappointing. But good that she's a) not suffering and b) not unknowingly infecting people.
How was your Christmas UK people? I kept seeing pics of family gatherings on Facebook and forgetting that some people could still meet.
It was lovely. Relaxed, seamless, no stress, the dinner was easy with just 5 and lots of time for Lego and board games and snacks in front of the online panto. The kids missed their cousins, but it was much easier without the crack of dawn wake up and extra stress of another family doing things ever so slightly different. Now if only Manchester United had gotten 3 points on boxing Day...
Elsewhere 8 family members across 3 households were isolating over Xmas with positive test results. Careful people but picked it up in schools and hospitals. My sister's family all had it for the second time :-( My BIL had it v.mildly first time round and no antibodies, worse this time but still ok so far. Kids just fevers and one a little cough. My sister however tested positive as part of an asymptomatic study. She had antibodies when NHS did their mass testing and she had had her first vaccination on Saturday. So that's disappointing. But good that she's a) not suffering and b) not unknowingly infecting people.
How was your Christmas UK people? I kept seeing pics of family gatherings on Facebook and forgetting that some people could still meet.