Sunday 25th December 2011
Up early to use the loo at 4am, mum woke too and started getting up then realised it was disappointingly early, it took me until after 6am to fall back to sleep. I'm writing this now in bed at about 25 past 11 - I have had knots in my stomach all day, and despite a fair old amount of alcohol and food, it has not gone away. Dad was not mentioned by mum all day until, just as I was going to, Steve held up his glass at the table and said a toast to him, which pissed me off a bit, but rather him than K. Nick and K had said they were coming for a small bite to eat with us and then go home to cook their own dinner. In fact, they stayed right through until it got dark and mum called them a cab to get home. K had not washed her hair and her clothes had not been ironed. This seemed usual to me, but after they left mum got very concerned that she was going to turn up looking like that at the funeral and would show her up to the family. Her usual trick was to leave food on the plate, not eat the gravy if I made it and complain that some veg or other brought her out in hives. She came and tasted the turkey as I carved it and said nothing, which is almost as rude as saying something was wrong with it. She did same as she dunked some turkey into the gravy pan. At the table, I set things out in serving dishes and said to Nick and K to put as little as they wanted on their plates if they were eating later. They had starter, main and desert and Nick said he was not going to bother cooking later, just have a sandwich. Give me strength. K wanted me to help her with her new laptop, just as I started doing the dishes. I could not see any problem with the connection, as they say they have and the innocuous error messages that come up when closing a game site, are probably due to her not closing the games properly. Some silly child’s game. I showed her some other basic commands and downloaded iTunes for her, offered to put some tunes on there, but she said she was getting confused about it and she was starting to shout as she got more confused.
We sat watching some TV and had a brief doze before Doctor Who came on, and great it was too. Mum stayed up for the Dancing and then went to bed as did I after a large G&T with Steve while we watched Abs Fab, which was Fab and a nice fun way to end the day and go to bed. Steve can be heard going out at least every ten mins for a fag. Earlier on, he said he chatted to Trish and Alan as they returned from lunch at her brother’s in Warrington. He told them about K and that he had to sleep on the sofa because mum was catholic, which they laughed at. Oh, the shame.
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