“What are you doing Katie?” Olwyn asked her. “I’m setting up the game of Cluedo that I got for Christmas. Would you like to play?”
“Oh, I think that sounds like fun. Will you play with us, Sandy? We need more than two players.” “Definitely, give me a moment to put away the hoover and I will be right with you.”
“I think I’ll get my new teddy bear to give me some help as you have Daisy with you, Katie.”
“We have everything set out Sandy” Olwyn called over, “and Katie has taken her move already, are you ready yet?”
“Brill, mmmm which cards do I have…”
“So what do you think Teddy?” Olwyn asked.
“I think I might be able to guess soon,” Sandy told the girls.
“You can’t possibly know yet Sandy…” grumbled Katie. “I haven’t a clue yet.”
“It’s my turn next,” Olwyn said. “These gingerbread men are really scrummy” Katie complimented Olwyn. “You should try one”. “Will you three please take the decorations off the tree for me,” mum asked them.
“S’pose so… we’re playing Cluedo, we’re not finished yet”. “Now please”, Mum said. They all stood up and looked at the tree. It was so beautiful and they didn’t want to take all the pretty baubles and tinsel off.
“It is bad luck not to have the Christmas decorations all taken down and put away by the twelfth night,” Olwyn told Katie. “Gosh, you are awfully superstition.”
“I’ll start on the tinsel,” Sandy told the girls. “I’m collecting the decorations, do you want to put them into the box, Katie,” Olwyn asked.
“I suppose we won’t get back to our game of Cluedo tonight. I’ll put it back in the box for you Katie.”
“Can you see any more baubles, Katie?” “I can see the orange one and what about that green one at the bottom?”
“I don’t have much more tinsel to take off,” Sandy told them. “You’ve dropped a couple of decorations on the floor over there Olwyn” Katie pointed out.
“Goodness, just look at that tangle of Christmas tree lights. You are going to age untangling them Katie” “Sandy, will you please help me move the tree outside.” Olwyn asked him.
“I’ll wind up these lights Katie,” Sandy said as he picked them up. Mum said that she would put the boxes in the attic later on. Olwyn called them all over to look out of the window. “Look, it started to snow outside.”
The next morning when Sandy got out of bed he could hear shouts outside and he looked out of his bedroom window. Cathy and Greg, next door, were already outside playing in the snow. They must have been out there for ages because they had already built a really cool snowman. “Sandy, are you coming downstairs,” Olwyn called to him. “Mark is here.”
Mark and Sandy set up the table football game that Sandy had got from Santa at Christmas. He couldn’t wait to play it. Olwyn and Katie were not really very interested in football. Katie was playing a computer game while Olwyn was writing thank you letters to her Aunts and Uncles.
“Bet I get the first goal,” Sandy told Mark. “Nah…. you won’t I am better than you are” Mark quipped.