Xmas eve farce

Christmas starts:

• Mother has forgotten the spare batteries for her hearing aid.
• The flat roof above the visitor's room is leaking, so has dripped onto mother-in-law's bed all night.
• Aunty is cold.
• Husband is stressed.
  

Mother-in-law has spare hearing-aid batteries for mother. We've moved mother-in-law's bed, covered it with a plastic table cloth, put a bucket under the drip, and woken up teenager in the attic to go through her bedroom to shovel the snow off the darned damp roof!

In the sitting room we now have two radiators on and a halogen heater and a oil filled radiator.

We go and watch a pantomime this afternoon.