I'm in a new relationship but it's his turn with his kids, who don't know about me yet. Parents dead, and the people I usually spend time with on Xmas Day are three families of relatives - my aunt and uncle and their daughters families, so I can't go there as I'll make it more than three households. Funny, the year I meet someone after being single for 10 years, is the year that I'll be spending Xmas Day on my own.
I'm going to walk to the cemetery to take some flowers to my mum and dad and have a tidy up and a good cry, come home, have a lovely non-xmas lunch, read all day, a bit of a buffet tea, and have a long bath with a Jo Malone candle, and an early night. Probably no TV as that will make me miserable, but I should be fine without. From Boxing Day onwards I'm going to get in the car and go and explore a bit - I've been in Tier 3 (or it's predecessor) since the beginning of July and I've not been further than 5 miles from my house. I feel like I'm suffocating, so I'm going to go and spread my wings somewhere else. If you can bypass the travel tier system if you're meeting up with a bubble then in my mind you can bypass the travel tier system if you don't have a bubble. I'm going to find a beach and walk on it - I am craving sea air like you wouldn't believe.
Once 27th is past, I'm going to Marie Kondo the shite out of my house and start the new year with a clean, clear, tidy, uncluttered house. And a lot of trips to the tip.