Twelfth Night

It's Twelfth Night tonight so all our decorations are now down and the house is back to normal.  No more Christmas trees with their twinkling lights, no more holly wreaths and baubles but we do still  have lots of chocolates and fancy biscuits to tempt the weak-willed away from their New Year diets - or maybe that's just me.

We had a lovely Christmas, lots to eat and drink and Santa was particularly generous as Dave was in such a hurry to get home that he left my presents in London and had to rush out on Christmas Eve with Lesley and buy replacements! Well done Lel - I love the bag and the digital photo frame!

For New Years Eve we all went our separate ways, James went back to Aber, Lesley travelled down to Somerset for a party and I travelled down to London to stay with Dave.  We had a fab meal in the most retro Italian restaurant in London.  It was like travelling back to the 70's, posters of Sorento on the walls and empty Chianti bottles hanging from the fake beams on the ceiling but best of all were the temperamental Italian waiters straight out of central casting - it was totally unreal! We then went to see Blood Brothers along with an audience of mainly foreign tourists.  Quite what they made of the references to Liverpool in the 1960's is any body's guess but if the standing ovation they gave the cast at the end of the show is anything to go by they enjoyed the night as much as we did. On New Years Day we braved the cold and went back up into town to watch the New Year Parade through Westminster and then walked through to Hyde Park to warm up with glugwein at the Winter Wonderland Fair

As we were travelling home on Saturday we had a whole extra day to ourselves on the Friday 2 Jan so we made the most of it and had a bracing walk along the Thames Path from Canary Wharf to the Tower of London, stopping along the way at various hostelries for alcoholic refreshment, before meeting up with Janis and Graham in the evening for dinner - smashing way to end the holidays even if it did mean that we were a bit bleary eyed on the 7.20am flight out of London City the next morning!