What is a New Year exactly...?

 

 

 

The Mayans made the mistake of once saying that there was going to be a transition, a period of change and rebirth.  Cue around four thousand years later, common sense goes out the window and people start taking everything a little too literally.

 

We had our first house guests for this week, my sister and her husband came to see the house for a few days and we took an excursion into Windsor and to Virginia Water Lake.  Apparently some of the lake scenes from Harry Potter were shot here because the Scottish option was deemed unsuitable due to midgies. Pesky midgies.

 

As for New Year's eve we will be spending it painting the study turquoise.

And there goes another Xmas...

 

I don't mind too much that Xmas was done and dusted so quickly, we still have a week of wearing pyjamas till noon and drinking at inappropriate times of day.

 

 

We were quite productive in this festive time too, we managed to get the daybed set up for the guest bedroom so my visitors won't have to camp in the garden.  I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a guest bed but doesn't want furniture that takes up an entire room.  It's a neat single bed/sofa by day but you can pull it out into a double when needed - good ol' Ikea.

 

Day bed by day...

 

We also gave Ikea's supply of candles a good thrashing,  we've used a load of them to fill the fireplace in the living room.  I prised up the laminate flooring that had been glued down to the hearth and could see under all the tile glue and concrete that there are some lovely original terracotta tiles.  They'll need some tlc but I hope we can restore them.

 

 

 

 

And Xmas isn't complete without lethal quantities of yummy cheese, courtesy of a friend who put out a cracking spread for a girly catch-up with our newly mummified friend and her gorgeous daughter.

 

Smelly spreads

 

 

 

An Xmas in pictures...

 

Happy Xmas everyone, hope you're having a lovely day what ever you're doing.

 

We took a wander into Amersham Old Town the other day, turns out that's where they keep all the nice pubs...

 



The Elephant and Castle -
much nicer than it's South London namesake



 

Chocolate Roulade for Xmas