Hope you all had a good Christmas. We did here. No snow on the ground but if you looked close enough you could still see some on top of the hills. Morgan woke up at 4.30am and opened the presents in his stocking and then went back to sleep until about 8.30am.
After a quick breakfast and getting dressed, we started on the presents. Santa had been busy and there were loads of presents under the tree. Morgan was pretty excited about the Nintendo Wii that Santa had left for the whole family, but spent most of the day playing with either his pirates and their castle or his little pot of ‘fart putty’! Anna had lots of socks and quite a few nice kitchen gadgets and I had plenty of cycling, windsurfing and walking clothing. Santa didn’t forget about Pat either and she had plenty of presents to open as well.
The Wii which was the big present for the whole family went down well and we all had a go on the Wii Sports and Wii Sport Resort games. We haven’t had a ‘video game ‘ before and wanted something that would be fun for the whole family and more of a ‘social event’ when playing it. The games had to be suitable for Morgan as well. He is pretty good at the bowling! It is a bit tedious swapping controllers all the time so I’m off to eBay to buy a new controller, motion plus attachment and Nunchuck. We’ll also need some new games as well.
We are also quite impressed with the BBC iPlayer facility through the Wii. Connecting it to the Wifi network was easy and then it allows you to subscribe to various channels. BBC iPlayed is one of these channels, the interface is nice and works really well eveb with our relatively slow Broadband connection. Watching iPlayer on the TV screen is much beter than watching it on the computer. There is also an internet channel which seems to work OK as well, but web sites are better viewed on the computer!.
Xmas dinner was of course delicious. The four bird roast was nice and there was plenty left over for various other meals. Some of it went into the freezer for use in curries over the next couple of weeks as well.
The weather was really nice all morning, perfectly sunny and still so I thought we might go for a walk on the beach. But, by the time we had recovered from lunch it had clouded over and looked pretty threatening out there so we ended up not leaving the house.
All in all a nice day and good to have a few days off work too.
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- Pressies under the tree
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- Xmas Oranges
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- Power Ranger Claws!
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- More fluffly socks!
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- It's a Wii!
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- Night Vision Goggles
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- Goggles
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- Fairy Lights
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- Pirate Castle
Anyone who knows me will know that I am always on the look out for ways to save money. I just feel better knowing that I got the best deal.
One of the best places for information is MoneySavingExpert.com. There are loads of tips and advice and the website is really easy to navigate. The weekly newsletter always has the latest deals and tips and there is usually something I’ll go on to look at in more detail. They even have a freebies section which has to be the best money saving ever!
My latest money saving success is the Nintendo Wii Santa is getting the Cole family for Christmas. ‘Santa’ bought it through a link from one of Al’s websites to Amazon so Al got commission. We also gave him vouchers to buy it with/ We get these vouchers from the company that provides our childcare vouchers and they have a deal where you save up to 7.5% on vouchers ordered through them. For Amazon you save 4%.
We also used some price comparison sites to make sure we have the cheapest price in the first place. I reckon we saved around £50 on the recommended retail price which has to be a good thing!
And my very favourite money saving tip 
