*waves*

My kidneys returned to normal functioning a few weeks ago I'm glad to say; just in time to completely re-arrange the lounge to accomodate the christmas tree which I put up last thursday. I love it. We've stuck with black, white and silver again this year... but next year it's going to be red and white. I'll have to set up a bauble fund though I think to cope with the complete new range of decorations we'll need.

Check out my wrapping baby... the bows aren't bad eh? The pressies look a bit sparse this year which totally does NOT reflect just how much I've bloody well spent but still. To be fair alot of them had to be posted to Ireland and Japan. I should also introduce you to radiator monkey too by the way in the background of the last photo ... :-) He's cool.

We do have some sad news unfortunately. Wenda, our goldfish died last week. She hadn't been well for a while and despite our attempts to stem what seemed to be some sort of internal bacterial infection, she died. It was pretty sad actually because we've had her for years and I'm pretty sure Edgar Alan Poe went through a few days worth of fish-grief. Seriously he seemed really blue and lonely, so obviously we had to go right out and get him a new friend. I couldn't resist getting two new little ones to add to the tank. So, we now have two new fishies who are currently nameless. They're both really small still and look teeny compared to big old Poe but they all seem to be getting on nicely so far.

RIP Wenda.