Sunday into Monday…

After the non-events of Saturday (mind you the Chinese and chillaxed evening were perfectly fine), made my way over Mother’s in Chesham to find … SNOW!!

Mind you, Mother looks fine (if you ignore the sciatica )

Merry Christmas etc.…..

Decided to get back into gear and keep a running blog this Yule season (and if I really get going to keep this up to date and move away from Facebook….)

So (what a limp way to start!!), what’s happened so far?

RELAXED start to the season

Friday 17th

Had a relaxed evening with fellow badders people – long time friends for Suzie; big part of her life.

Saturday 18th

Peter was supposed to :

a) Watch Watford play Preston North End in the afternoon,

b) Then wander off to Luton for school christmas bash…

Suzie was supposed to go to St Stephen’s for the last dance bash before christmas ….

BUT

it snowed

So the world came to a stop….

Happy New Decade...

Welcome to 2010 - and fairly good riddance to 2009....

How was our Christmas then? Well - white and cold!!

First - off to see these three VERY excited bunnies....

This was the view for most of the week - not fun to drive through :)

A sumptous Christmas Dinner provided by these two....and Janice managed to invoke the Sprout God and save us...

A luscous hotel....

then....

Last stop...God's country.....

Snow...

Seems to have been a while since i last posted on here...perhaps I have SAD syndrome, because all of a sudden the light is staying longer and i feel more 'up', if you know what I mean!!

Anyway, on one of our snow days, I took a stroll...

Over the fields around Hertford and Ware

Along the River Lea

Into Hertford - This Samuel Stone - one of thew founders of

Hartford, Conneticut

And finished it with a scrumptous pint of London Pride and a home made Pork Pie (with mustard..of course!!)

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Snow Day

The Luscious Diane has just phoned to tell me school is closed.  This is outdoors right now!! 

This is the UK closing down for the day...

Strange colour outside...

So, where's all this global warming then?  

Here we were expecting good old England to be as balmy as the Med in a few years - you know, brown slopes and olive groves - long warm autumns....RIGHT!!!

but..according to the The Telegraph, it's good for us...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3281540/Why-snow-in-October-is-reason-to-rejoice.html

Yippee - it's a snowday....

Thank you weatherman - it's our now nearly annual snow-day off.

Lots of expectation by the kids at school all week about how they were going to spend Thursday having fun in the snow, and lo and behold, down it came!! Bit of trepidation waiting for the phone call to say get back into bed, but it came from the luscious Dianne.

So - back to the future - Our Kiwi Land Adventure.

Planning is developing nicely - getting our itinerary up and running, so to speak. Decided to hire a car and sleep in a bed, rather than the camper van we first considered.

So, plan so far:- arrive 23rd, stay in Auckland with Aunt Joan, then immediately decamp (sorry Aunt Joan) and leg it up to Northlands and stay at Paihia for a couple of nights - this is so we can go here for my brthday:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_Mile_Beach,_New_Zealand