1. I wake early, but the boys do not, so I go downstairs and sit with a mug of cocoa and a computer game.
2. To retire to bed in the dark middle of the afternoon and read and doze until Nick brings the baby up for a cuddle.
3. "That's what I really like about Downton," says Nick. He is impressed because Lord Grantham stands alone with his arms by his sides in a crowd of saluting soldiers. "He's not wearing a hat," my detail-conscious husband says. "In nine out of ten dramas he would have saluted, but not this one."
Coffee, right there and advent calendar.
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