Just like we did the summer parties in bad weather, it would be perfect for what we had planned. The tables and chairs were going to be set up while J...enny was gone with Lisa. To top off the room we were going to decorate in baby boy blue.However this morning was another matter. All of us were going to Morton Field to park planes in the hangar. Those planes had returned last night after dark. Lorrie had told the Carson and Sabrina to have the pilots to park the planes on the tarmac in front of. Gracie remained silent, gazing out the window. ‘You know Grace,’ he said, through his mouthful of toast, ‘why don’t we?’ Turning back to face him again, she hesitated. ‘Tom, you know we can’t…’ her voice trailed off. They’d been through this before. ‘C’mon Grace, we haven’t seem them in years, it’ll be fun!’ Looking pained, she sighed. Reaching across the table, he took her small hands in his larger ones and squeezed gently. Softening his voice he said to his wife, ‘My sweet Gracie-Jane,. ”“All these vegetables are from the garden,” said Jack, “I only picked them this afternoon. You can’t get much fresher than that. And according to the butcher, this lamb was frolicking in a field in Snowdonia just last weekend.”The dessert was simply heavenly—home-made apple and blackberry pie. The fruit was also from the garden. The six of us polished off three and a half bottles of wine during the meal, and we boys enjoyed a couple of bottles of Carlsberg each too.“Shall we go through to the. The Christmas dinner was splendid and Joe had ordered a bottle of quite expensive sparkling wine. I think the excuse was that we should celebrate the baby's first Christmas even if we were doing so in her absence from the proceedings. We were permitted a glass of the champagne and even Isa had a token sip. We arrived home about three in the afternoon in time to take in the Queen's speech. This was a tradition that both Joe and Isa had observed before their marriage and which they kept to now. I.