Happy New Year! I had a very relaxing Christmas and new year holiday. As it’s 12th Night, the last day of Christmas, I thought it time I end my holiday hiatus, sort through my Christmas photos, and resume my regular posting.
Looking back, I had a good 2010. A little bit of travel, I went to Rome, Berlin (twice), Copenhagen, Malm√∂, Sligo, London, Birmingham, Shropshire, Exmoor, Bristol, and Bath, as well as the usual little adventures. We didn’t go anywhere too far as we are saving for a big trip that we want to go on this year (more on that another day). We decided to build a house. I gave myself a bit of a break at the end of the year and postponed a few big projects that I want to do. So now it’s 2011 and I am looking forward to throwing myself into all sorts of things.
As for resolutions I have quite a few small general ones but my main feeling is that in 2011 I want to throw myself with enthusiasm into the various projects I have, no procrastination, 2011 is a year of action.
So to finish off an other year of posting here are the final pictures of the last week and a bit of 2010….
Simon’s birthday.
Amazing igloo on the green outside my father’s house. Like something from Where The Wild Things Are. There were three snow chairs inside.
The Christmas dinner that I cooked for that family on Christmas day. That’s only some cuts from the turkey in the middle of the table, the whole turkey was big. I might do the main cooking but the Christmas meal event is really a collaboration with everyone chipping in e.g. my mother made the ham, my dad shopping for the ingredients, my aunt made the Christmas cake, my other aunt brought the Christmas pudding, my sister helping me serve and stir, my sister and aunt doing the decorations and laying the table. It’s good that way.
Best part of the Christmas meal – Christmas pudding! I make zabaglione to go with it which is a family tradition.
After Christmas meal.
My mother has real candles on her tree, it’s very pretty.
Visiting friends. Playing Street Fighter II after watching Scott Pilgrim.
Bedside table in chaos but my birthday flowers lasted for ages, the tulips puffed out.
North Leigh Roman Villa remains, on one of our many small explores over the holidays. I was imagining Romans from Rome shivering and ill from the damp in togas in this marshy place by the river but apparently they might have been Romanised Britons. No one knows.
Everyone had many naps.
Anne Hathaway’s cottage (Shakespeare’s wife’s family’s house). We didn’t go in. Just passing.
We also poked our noses into The Swan part of the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon and had a look at the renovations.
My dad’s tree.
New year’s eve.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
