Thank you to everyone for comments yesterday.
A spell of very cold weather landed on the UK - quite unusual for many places to have snow in December. I've gone down with a cold too- first for so long I can't remember when I last had one. It's an aching all over and headache type cold. Decided against going out to the exercise class and swimming but I really need to go shopping as soon as I can.
Last Sunday I went to visit Father Christmas in his grotto at Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens.
This video - if it works - dates from a few years ago , but it was much the same.
Of course I didn't go on my own but with Son, DiL and two grandchildren.. It was a frosty day but not too cold walking around.
We went on the train and looked around the museum. Grandson was very excited by the model railway, especially after he found he could push a button to make the train move. I think he would have stayed all day, climbing on the step to watch the train then climbing down saying "press the button" and climbing back up to watch it again.
No sitting on Santa's knee here, he was fenced in!
This sort of thing didn't happen when our children were small and if it had we wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway. The Santa they saw was in a home made grotto made from a clothes horse, covered with a curtain at the Scout's Christmas Fayre.
Just one way things are so different now........
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