Happy New Year

Dave and I ran away for New Years Eve this year, Lesley was partying with her friends and James was working, so we thought that we would treat ourselves and spend the night in a swanky hotel in London and see in the New Year watching the fireworks on the Thames.

Unfortunately with the problems on the trains we had to drive down but we were able to give Lesley and Lawrence a lift to their party otherwise we would all have had to have left home on Boxing Day to guarantee getting through Birmingham by New Years Eve ( or so the BBC news implied). Luckily there wasn't much traffic on the motorways so we had good trips both ways and even managed to get a parking space at the hotel.

Unfortunately Lesley was down with the Winter Vomiting Virus (nasty name for a nasty virus) which half the country seems to have caught. So her party night was spent curled up on Lily's sofa watching everyone else have a good time!

Dave and I, oblivious to our daughter's illness, had a lovely time. We walked for miles looking at all the brilliant Christmas lights, the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, stopping along the way for a drink or two and the rounding it all off with a nice meal at a really fun Turkish (I think) restaurant near Covent Garden.

The fireworks at midnight were fab and luckily we didn't have too far to stagger back to the hotel.