This afternoon we went over to one of the most southern church in the world and put up the christmas decorations. The museum folks made mulled wine, mince pies, sausage rolls, brownies and blackberry pies to entice us over. The building was pre built in Norway and erected by whalers in 1913 managed by Carl Larsen (there is a bust of him in the church). It is a Norwegian Lutheran Church of the Church of Norway. It was consecrated on christmas day 1913 and in 1922, a funeral service for Sir Ernest Shackleton was conducted here before his burial in the church cemetery the other side of King Edward Cove.

Alastair did a grand job of sweeping up the inevitable bits of tinsel at the end.

Alastair put his camera up in the gallery and made a time lapse movie which I shall post up on the site when it is fully put together.

This is a picture of Hugh the museum caretaker who had all the decorations ready for us to put up. He is a star the other day he noticed I had a flat tire on my bike and before I had a chance to fix it after work he had done it as well as oiling the chain.

A practical fake tree – I do miss the smell of a real one though!

Before going across to the church I introduced the base to a Perrin family tradition of making a gingerbread house. There was quite a bit of enjoyment and people on a sugar high.

Tommy and Alastair weren’t around to make it so we left a wall for them to decorate. They put a whale on the wall out of smarties, had a pig (meant to be a cat) and some flowers in a pot.