11th January 2011

Today we received a Christmas present, re-branded as a New Year present, from some friends. Rather amusingly it was a set of magnets cunningly packaged to look like a giant iPhone!

5th January 2011

Twelfth night tonight and so we've spent the evening taking down our Christmas decorations. It feels a bit sad that Christmas is over for another year, but it's nice to reclaim some space in our lounge again! Now just got to put the boxes back in the loft...

4th January 2011

Christmas may be over for another year, but this present brought a smile to my face again when I slipped my feet into them on my return home from my first day back at work.

3rd January 2011

In an effort to ignore the fact that today was the last day of the Christmas break we went out for a country walk to do some geocaching and followed it up with lunch out in Sevenoaks. The walk was mostly on footpaths and bridleways running through a private estate and one part took us past a large flock of sheep! They didn't seem too bothered by us though...

30th December 2010

Ok, this is going to make me sound like a grumpy old woman, but I really couldn't believe my eyes when I went into Tesco this afternoon and spotted a shelf full of Easter products on sale already! Christmas is barely over and it's not as if Easter is early next year - there's still a good 3-4 months of shopping days left to buy your eggs!

27th December 2010

Today my god-daughter and her sister came over to catch-up and collect their Christmas presents - they're both now so grown-up it makes me feel quite old!

25th December 2010

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Despite being further into our thirties than we'd care to mention, Father Christmas still managed to slip a little something into Mr W's and my stockings this morning!

24th December 2010

This afternoon we drove down to my parents' house in Dorset for Christmas. My godmother and her gorgeous black labrador, Molly, are also staying for Christmas and on being reunited I am not sure who was more excited - Mr W or Molly!!

23rd December 2010

This evening we went for a pre-Christmas meal with Mr W's parents, which was also an opportunity to meet Mr W's brother's Belgian girlfriend for the first time. She is trained in Indian classical dance and very kindly gave us a demonstration before dinner! It was a swirling delight and made me feel dizzy just watching!

16th December 2010

Mr W is very good at buying treats and the other day he came home with some mini chocolate reindeer for me - yum!

12th December 2010

Less than two weeks until Christmas now and so we decided to put our Christmas tree up this afternoon. We've gone artificial this year, but it still looks pretty with the lights and the lounge still smells all Christmassy thanks to a couple of scented candles!

8th December 2010

It was my work Christmas party tonight and there was supposed be a 'Cocktails and Dreams' 80s theme, so we couldn't quite work out the significance of the flamingos on the tables...
It was a good night though and I ended up staying out much later than I expected to!

5th December 2010

Today we met up for a Christmas meal with the group of friends that Mr W did his accountancy training with several years ago. This is Oscar the latest recruit to the group!

26th November 2010

Today we took the day off work to go Christmas shopping. We went to Bluewater, which was busy but not nearly as painfully busy as I'm sure it will be at the weekend. Clearly I can't reveal here what we purchased but I can disclose that we bought a new cross-cut shredder for added security and also because our current shredder sounds distinctly sick everytime we try to use it!

10th November 2010

Very excitingly we went and collected our Christmas present this evening. I've agreed we can test it out at the weekend to make sure it works but then it has to be wrapped up again until 25th December!

5th October 2010

We had a very busy evening at Brownies tonight - first off we had a trainee sniffer dog called Rick come to visit. As part of his training he needs to experience lots of different situations and so he did a couple of exercises where he had to find some drugs that had been planted on a couple of the girls. His reward each time was to play with a tennis ball and then when he'd finished working he got some cuddles from the Brownies! Afterwards the girls got busy making Christmas cards for this year's Blue Peter appeal, which involves making cards for Tesco to sell in aid of Whizz-Kidz. Here are some of their efforts...