This Christmas holiday has been a great, varied break with all sorts of different things happening. To start with I was collected early from school, missing the last chapel, which I must admit was a great bonus in order to go, with my parents and my little sister, Lottie, to Bosworth. Bosworth is a country house and small estate in Leicestershire, the C-M’s own it and they are great family friends of ours, Tom is a really close friend of mine and they have a small syndicate shoot of which my dad has a gun at, what a way to kick of the holidays! From waking up and changing into my suit for breakfast to being out in the Leicestershire country-side in plus 4s in about an hour! I had a great day, catching up with Tom and Felix, who is a long-time friend of mine. Tommy, Felix and I used to beat at the shoot from a very young age and so it is a very familiar, comfortable atmosphere. Daddy had brought Weasel and so I got to see her and already I felt as though I had always been on holiday, we had a great day and I shot well! Sunday, was uncreatively a day of rest but a well-deserved one after a busy term at school. I then had a party at a friend’s house and had a great time although some of the stories leaked from it may, I fear never leave the parents gossip! The very next evening I went to my close friend, Mamie’s house with Ed and Laura, we are all really good friends and although we had seen each other the night before it was great to be able to have a proper catch-up. There were a few other pre-Christmas drinks party’s that we went to, the Wrights party was dress coded as Christmas jumpers, however, being the boring people we are we turned up without any sartorial garments, but as we arrived I saw my friend, Patrick, wearing a Christmas hat and tie but by the time we walked through the door of the party, Patrick was there but minus his hat and tie, he had walked in realised no one was dressed up and hastily ditched his attire! Granny and Papa, came to stay soon after this and it was lovely to have them round, we went on a few dog walks and ate some delicious food, Granny had brought a gigantic Christmas cake and we had slices of cake with tea whenever we felt like it, yet even though we were regular chipping away at it, we still only managed to finish it in late January! On Christmas day, for the first time in 17 years I wasn’t waken up before light by Lottie, my sister! I was still up early, around 8 but just not compared to previous Christmas’s! We went to church, without much argument again contrary to most Christmas’s where we would always try to get out of church however I don’t know why we try considering that there is such a great social hubbub. After church we started are marathon of food and drink and, for the rest of the day, apart from a brief respite where we went for a dog walk we kept it up until later into the evening where we crashed in the sitting room next to a blazing fire, here, to my annoyance Daddy decided to face time the cousins! I usually find it irritating when he does this as it results in a loss of connection and a buffering image or, if not that then the camera is pushed around, usually breeching personal space and it results in chaotic leaning over each other to get a look at the image. However, this time it was incredible, the connection went through and the cousins answered, from a chairlift whilst they were skiing in America, whilst we had finished are busy day and had a warm fire and a black night, they were having a mid-morning ski with snow falling around them and the whole day ahead, moments like that really make you appreciate the magic of technology. Later on in the holiday, Daddy and I went beagleing It was my first time and it was something that I had wanted to do for a bit and, the Eton beagle pack just so happened to have meet of the Thurlow hunt land! So, excitedly we got ready for a long day out and we quizzed Mummy as to what we should were and with so many proposals, it was clear that it really didn’t matter! We got to the with, seven or eight other members of the field and arriving soon after us a beautiful pack of beagles, they were really sweet little hounds and it was a pleasure to see them milling around at the meet, after a glass of port and a sausage roll we headed off with slight apprehension and absolute confusion. We were vaguely instructed by what may or may not of been a field master as to what we should do and headed of in a line along the set-aside however with Daddy running trainers itching on his feet we soon found ourselves jogging ahead and away from the rest of them, we had a great day out and by the end of it I feel we must have seemed professionals, practically sprinting up tram lines and pushing our way through the thickest of hedges, we went home exhausted yet we were both still up for appearing the next day where they had a second nearby meet. Soon enough I was by the back door, bags packed and taxi waiting but mingled with the sick feeling of leaving home was the warm feeling of a busy, varied and satisfying Holiday.
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