January Roundup

The month of January seems to have flown by.  

 We watched the televised broadcast from London's River Thames Embankment on New Year's evening and enjoyed the fireworks.   The special lights in the sky were amazing.

Christmas Day was spent with our daughter at her family home. The complex consists of restored farm buildings out of town in the countryside.  The  stone houses are set around a main gravelled courtyard with mature birch trees in the centre and there are individual gardens for each house.  As there's farmland all around there'll be some good walks when the weather is better.     

 

Family group: me, daughter M holding her granddaughter

 (our new great granddaughter), Mr P holds our other great granddaughter.

our grandchildren and partners with their children

Daughter D made a fruit pavlova 

Daughter D and Mr P

Mr P and I have had quite a few medical and dental appointments this month.  It's always good to get these check ups done regularly.  There are medical issues to deal with, but we keep going.

I continue to enjoy blogging and the friendships made by making contact with folk around the world. 

That's all the news for now.  Have a good day everyone and a good weekend.

Happy New Year!

I hope you had a lovely Christmas.

Life in our home has been busy as our plans to get together at our local daughter's home had to be cancelled due to her being unwell.  Thankfully it wasn't Covid-19 or one of the variants, but an ear infection, dizziness and sickness which she picked up in the hospital where she works. It has laid her low and sad to have missed our family reunions. We hosted the family get togethers at our home so that she could rest and recover.  She did not want any of us to catch the 'flu and bug either. Some of the  grandchildren and their friends, our son and his son came for visits and we enjoyed two festive meals together.  Our daughter D from Berkshire, who came to stay, has kept us company and today is going to spend New Year's Eve with her son in Cambridgeshire before travelling back to Berkshire.  No doubt we'll see our local daughter M when she's feeling better and I'll write more as we journey into the new year.

As always I think of you, my blog friends.  Thank you for your friendship and visits to my blog.  

Happy new year!  May it be a peaceful year for us all. 

Happy New Year

Here are a few photos chosen from the many taken over the Christmas period when our daughter came to stay. We gathered together with some of the family members who could come to our home for the day on the 26th and enjoyed Christmas Day at our local daughter's home.

The evening before our daughter went back to her home in Berkshire she cooked a delicious meal of lasagne al forno, which we had with a mixed salad, and with a starter of melon and prosciutto.

We had more snow which lasted for a few days and then on New Year's Eve the sun came out and there was an opportunity to go into the garden and do some more tidying up.  Mr. P hung up a bird feeder full of seeds that one of the grandsons had given us and hopefully we'll see some more birds in our garden.

We had many lovely Christmas gifts from friends and family including flowers, fruit, an indoor pot plant, books and a food hamper.  It's good to see the shoots appear from bulbs that were planted in small pots in November.  

Yesterday evening we saw the new year in at home as usual, this year just the two of us, and watched the BBC broadcast of the firework display from London's Thames Embankment. This evening we shall go to our local daughter's home for an evening dinner and a time together.

Thank you for your good wishes sent recently.

Sending my love and wishing you a happy, healthy and peaceful new year 2018.

My week: New Year's Day to Epiphany

We've had many happy moments this last week. The decorations have been taken down except for some special seasonal cards from abroad. the Nativity scene and Three Kings for the festival of Epiphany. I bought the Three Kings figurines in a gift shop in Castleton, Derbyshire.  The pieces fit together like a jigsaw and you can buy other pieces that are similar to the Babushka doll idea created by the same artist.

There was no longer any snow on the hills around Castleton, but we spent more time sitting in Ye Olde Nag's Head Hotel than walking around.

Fishing at Ladybower Reservoir

I received two lovely Christmas gifts, a Laura Ashley cup and saucer and a book, The Miniaturist, written by Jessie Burton, with a setting in Amsterdam.