All for one and one for all

Best Christmas present ever - all the peeps I love best together.
On the barn front there was only Steve and one other working today; the whole team'll be back straight after new year. Hope they're not sick of mince pies by then as when they come back they'll be eating the ones we got them for the season of goodwill. But - they are excellent, the barn's looking great.
I spent most of today making a Delia soup of origin de Francais with the prodigals' favourite things in it. Grace and Sheila dropped in - it was lovely to see them although Sheila's year seems as bad as ours. Let's hope next year is better.
Another midnight foray to Tesco for chilled and frozen, with just a few forgotten ambients (get the foodie speak!) now that the new fridge freezer's arrived - hurray, space! No smashed windows this time though, oh, and thanks, Mr Autoglass for a fine job on the thuggery handiwork.