Photo Challange: Your Christmas

The Challenge:



Christmas is almost upon us, and I expect many of you will be busy. To reflect this, the deadline for this week’s Challenge isn’t until the New Year.
The theme is simply your Christmas. All you have to do is take any photo that summarises the Christmas period for you. Let us know what you did with your time off, who you visited, and which was the biggest present!
Entries in by noon on Tuesday 5th January, please. I know it’s a long way off so I’ll post a reminder a few days before, so you remember to send your photos in





One picture that reminds me of Christmas....

This is an saffron teddy bear (unbaked)- saffron bread is like an English tea cake with saffron in it, it is only really make in Cornwall and only made into teddy bears by my family. The Saffron tea cake is traditionally eaten a sign as friendship, and we usually have the saffron bear for Breakfast on Christmas morning. This year though we where visiting people over the Christmas holiday for my friends little boy got the teddy bear and and I took some saffron buns to the homes we went to as sign of friendship. It is just not Christmas with out it.

New Year Wishes

As promised here is a picture of my christmas cake. We had a really nice Christmas and new year. However I though I would have write a quick note to say thanks to everyone we saw over the Christmas holiday for making this very sociable season. If we did not make it to see you then where is always 2010 and we hope this year is full of joy and promise.

We didn't get much snow but but I did make a snowman!



I am not one for making New years resolutions but this year I have decided that I really need to sort out my address book and make sure I have everyone birthdays written down is one place so I will be contacting people shortly for information. I apologise in advance for not knowing the information already I know that I should but I have a memory like a sieve.

I am also getting in to a positive frame of mind for work 2010, after the last 3-4 months on 2009 I figure this year has to be better.

Anyway I hope you all have a great 2010 and that the year is full of hope, good news and blessings

A wedding gift

Wayne and I have been married for two years now and one of the wedding gifts that we received was a hand carved picture frame, well we finally got around to find commissioning a picture that was perfect for it.

So here is the finished product

I think it looks great and It will look even better when we put it above the fire place but we need to get the right supports for it first as we don't want it to fall down!

Thanks for the great frame Ella and James and the awesome picture Stu... check out Stu website (http://www.stuart-carter.co.uk/) when you need a photographer

Christmas preparations 2

Tomorrow is Christmas and we are spending it with the in-laws so over the last few days I have been finishing off all the things so i thought i would a few pictures of our preparations
As well as the Christmas tree and all the wrapping... and the marathon journey visiting family we have:

A good use of a Birthday present and a family Christmas tradition



The promised Christmas Cake and some Flowers for Val



I find myself looking forward to midnight (10 o'clock) mass tonight and to the Methodist service in the morning, there is that anticipation in the air that I love about Christmas eve


Happy Christmas everyone

Christmas preparation 1

I have done most of the Christmas shopping, wrapping and writing cards and cake baking ( will post a picture soon)

I have been singing carols all week and fell that I am in the Christmas spirit and am looking forward to seeing people over the next few weeks and passing on the joy of the season.

but in the mean time I can pass on this link from James's blog (http://www.lovingit.co.uk/) it is 10 very cool science party tricks

I really want to try the one with the candle

Party week

Well it started with a birthday meal, at the new Italian in town for my birthday...it is very nice but the service is very relaxed.

We then went to Wayne's Christmas party , where there were fire eaters, dancers and dodgems!

Wayne really enjoyed it!

Friday was my Christmas party and oops I forgot to take that camera :)

this week is wrapping pressies and getting early nights...at least it is nearly Christmas

Carols at the Priory

Friday evening we went to a carol concert but rather than at a church, this was at the ruins of Grace Dieu Priory (http://www.gracedieupriory.co.uk/). It was a Priory for Augustinian canonesses which was dissolved in 1538 and left for ruin. A few hundred people trundle too sing a range of carols, some of which I new and some that i didn't, We also had some mince pies and a mulled wine.

It was a great start to the Christmas season now all I have to do is the shopping and the wrapping and more partying :)