The Big Freeze

Over Christmas and into the New Year we had an unusual amount of snow for the south of England. As I mentioned, we have enjoyed it with walks and playing in the snow. I'm not sure these ducks we spotted just before Christmas would have been appreciating it quite as much though...


and I'm sure the birds in my in-laws' garden were pretty miffed when they discovered their bird bath frozen over...

Winding Down

On Wednesday night we had our home group over for a Christmas party - food and games and much merriment ensued. We even made hot apple punch (inspired by some friends a couple of weekends ago) which went down very well.


Last night we went to T's work Christmas party - my first experience of the infamous do. And we enjoyed it. It was fun meeting some new people, talking about life, books and food. And when we walked out of the door it was into swirling whirling snow that was actually settling! It was so exciting. I should have taken some photos when we got home but by that stage we were so freezing we just wanted to get inside and curl up in bed, so here's a few from this morning as it melts.


Today: a squillion jobs to do before tomorrow. Packing, laundry, cooking, present wrapping, tidying, cleaning, organising, crafting. This morning so far has been mostly spent wrapping and ribboning to a background of the Little Women DVD. Which has resulted in a warm fuzzy feeling and blinking away tears at the really sad bits I'd forgotten. (I'm also rapidly running out of paper and ribbon, and have forgotten gift tags as usual so things are on track for a late night and busy Saturday morning!) Nevertheless - loving the prospect of Christmas holidays.

Have a good weekend lovelies.

Warm and Twinkly

I've had a sore throat for a couple of days but I've been distracting myself by enjoying lovely winter things. Like decorations going up in our house...


Christmas cards going in the post...


T coming home from work for a lunch of hot crumpets and tea...


And enjoying wintery drinks, and an evening on the sofa with T...


What's making you excited about winter and Christmas these days?

Snow

What could be more lovely than a small cottage in the countryside, a heated swimming pool, five days of holiday with my lovely husband? That was the plan - this afternoon we would drive off...to Devon. Except that Devon just happens to be the place that got about a foot of snow dumped on it last night. The only roads that go to our lovely empty cottage are closed or packed with abandoned vehicles.



At the beginning of the week the snow was great. Beautiful and fun and so exciting. But now? I am definitely over the snow.

(Although we're hoping to go tomorrow instead and once we're there I'll be back to loving the snow. What can I say? I'm fickle.)