Happy New Year friends, we do hope you had a lovely Christmas. We had a great time; our nests were decorated with lots of pieces of tinsel that we found lying around in church. We used holly berries as well, but we don’t like the leaves, the prickles are just too much for our little noses.
Mum and Dad had collected some very special goodies for us to eat, we never know where they get them from, do you think it might be the village shop? We had a huge party on Christmas Day, we invited all our field mouse friends to come in and join us, and they brought some lovely dried fruits and nuts they had saved for the occasion, so nice to share things. We played lots of games, we little ones were a bit naughty and ran off to swing on the baubles on the Christmas tree, I don’t think we broke any, but we were soon told to come back and play mouse matchstick jenga instead.
A couple of days after Christmas we had a visit from great uncle Claude, you can see his picture. Well great uncle Claude is a vicar. He’s not a bit like Rev Cate, he is rather strict, but he told us some really good stories from the Bible. He has a big booming voice and we were afraid any visitors in church might hear him, his roar of the lion and voice of Angel Gabriel were almost frightening! We were a bit shy 
with him at first, but once we got to know him he was great fun and was very interested about our stories of things that go on in our church. We told him about all the straw in church that was used for the school carol service and how we loved gathering it up when everyone was gone and how Mum has made it into new pillows for us. We also told him how wonderful that service was, how the children sang so beautifully, what an amazing sound they made.
Carols, carols, carols, so many carols we heard on Christmas, with high voices and deep voices all making a lovely sound and giving us mice such a lot of pleasure. We hope great uncle Claude will come and visit again. We had to laugh, we saw him sitting in Rev Cate’s seat (I hope she doesn’t find out) and that was just one of the funny things he did.
Well we must go and help Mum and Dad take down our decorations. We will be sad to see them go, but Easter will soon be on its way.
Squeaks for the New Year, Parchie and Parchina.
