Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

It's Christmas time again and of course that means school nativity shows. This year, despite the fact that Joan no longer works there we just had to see the performances. The school is now so big, with both a Primary and a Secondary School, that they decided to split the shows over two evenings.

This evening was the turn of the little ones, up to class 5. As always the very little ones in crèche stole the show, all dressed up in their Santa outfits. We also got a performance of " ).htm">Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" from one of the reception classes, although Santa looks a little apprehensive. The other reception class gave an equally enthusiastic performance ofGoldilocks and the three bears, complete with all their own bears. We were then entertained by the story of Mary and this was followed by a Santa who actually popped upout of a chimney, when prompted by a bang on the box by teacher. As usual all the kids came back on stage for the final sing-along. A super evening as always, with mince pies and mulled wine being served up in the school dining room. This year the older kids had made the mince pies themselves, a little heavy on the pastry and light on the mincemeat, but at least well cooked in the ovens supplied by you know who. Plug!!!!!!

Afterwards, Joan and I went down to L&D's for some supper. Nice and basic again, cottage pie, chips and beans, with in my case a large Carlsberg to help it down.