Merry Christmas

It has been a suitably busy December. I went off to Germany for a weekend to visit Alex and Steve and the gorgeous little Miss Emily (Eis eis baby). We meandered through the Christmas markets, and practiced for christmas day: we drank firewine (a version of mulled wine) and killerpitsch, and ate a lot. And I picked up our wii - Adam's christmas present. So since i have gotten back, Adam has achieved a pro status in almost all the sports with many gold medals for the practice games, and downloaded all the sega/nintendo games of his childhood. So if anyone's miis want to be friends with our miis, drop us a line.

Happy family - Alex, Steve and Emily




and then i gave her a kiss...

... and then it was bed time


And then, Schmoo and Suz came to visit from Oz. So we had a day trip to stonehenge, on one of the coldest days of the year of course. We had some pretty serious frost in the lead up to Christmas, and there were large white swathes of frost (or possibly very light snow) on the way. And it was also the shortest day of the year, although i think the druids had already gone back to sleep in their campervans before we got there. And then we had a wander around the fairy lights of Bath for a bit of sightseeing/shopping, and discovered a very funky tearoom (ahhh, that hit the spot).




Bath in 'early' afternoon


Moroccan lights at the teahouse


Bath cathedral at Christmas


Christmas day was just Adam, Steve & I. I enjoyed my 4 hours in the kitchen, cooking a ridiculously large amount of pork, duck yorkshire pudding and veges. We had three types of homemade chutney, 13 types of fruit and veg, christmas pudding and two types of pie. And then we watched the Queen's speech, snoozed, played risk, smashed a peppermint pig. Ahhh, orphan's christmas.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.