It began early as the children were awake looking at their presents. There was much excitement & running about. I had made Elizabeth & Philippa 2 red cross uniforms out of one of my old ones. They were immensely pleased with them.

At 8 D & I went over to Church, & we felt then rather sad & lonely when we thought of the large crowd of us that used to be there at that service. The church looked very pretty with the usual ivy up the pillars, & we had a nice lot of white chrysanthemums for the altar and font.

The singing went very well the carols in the evening being a great success, although it was only the children who sang them. As regards the weather it was as usual a good old fashioned Christmas with rain in the morning, but fine & still in the afternoon, & of course no snow.