Boxing Day (26th Dec)

We all met at George & Dan's for cold Turkey and left overs.

They look so angelic !!!!! LOL. More like 5 "MONKEY'S"

Emma & Grace play make up, with me as the model..........

Joe & Edward play games on the Wii.


Darren & Genette take on Jim & Nick. We got both family's a "table football" each for Christmas.

George & Dan were busy in the kitchen getting food to feed us all again. !!!!!

Christmas Day

Jim & I had a gorgeous breakfast at Gen & Darren's, and then on to George & Dan's for Christmas dinner. I must give Dan 10 out of 10 as he did all the cooking, and he grew a lot of the veg himself. (that is the one's he could get out of the ice bound ground.....






This is how you set fire to the Christmas pudding Nick.....Brandy and a naked flame....

Two Granddad's take on a 7 year old.

Emma got her BIG bear

Christmas Eve

The icicle's on all the houses look so nice. On some of the homes

near us they are over 4 feet long.

We met up with my brother and sister at Mum & Dad's in the morning.


My sister and I are so happy to have mum home,

as she has been in and out of hospital this last week.

My brother John, brother-in-law Paul and Jim catch up.

That evening we all met at Gen & Darren's for supper.

The little ones put on a show for us, then we played charades.

Nick has us all guessing, film, play, tv or book ??????????????

Nick and Grace

Grace is only a few months older than Nick. They have always played well together.

Winter Blast

Woke up today to -19c (-2f ) On the plus side its stopped snowing, and I have to admit it looks very pretty. I still don't understand how, every year when it snows here, the whole country comes to a complete standstill. Both London airports are closed again, for the second day on the trot, Birmingham airport is also closed again for the second day, though is expected to reopen by mid morning today. The five day forecast is for more of the same. At least its toasty in our house.....

SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!

View from the lounge window.

View from the CONSERVATORY !!!!!!!!!!!!

What Christmas is all about.

We went to see Grace in her Christmas School Nativity today, and it was so well done. The theme was Christian Christmas’s around the world. Grace was a Chinese dancer, which she did very well.   

Grace is 2nd from the left.

I had to put the USA dancers in.

Grace in the middle.

The whole cast.

Had a hug before she had to go to class.

After we left Grace at school we had to go and get Emma, as she has a cold and is off school. We had her for the day yesterday too ( sorry your ill Emma BUT loved  having you for 2 days).  We had to get our tree today so she came with us to the tree farm.  

Like this one ?

SOLD

Looks good….

Coffee, fire and a real  Christmas tree. 

We then set off to see Nick, singing with his class, in Mell Square. George and Dan look on as son and heir sings his heart out.

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Jim looking on, maybe we can have a look around the shop’s after ???

Nick looking cool…..

“HI NANA”

Home Sweet Home

Our journey home. while quite tiring, was mainly uneventful. We left the apartment in Aguilas at about 5.15am, Thursday December 2nd. a little earlier than planned, but we both woke about 4.30, and neither of us could get back to sleep, so we decided to get up and go. The temperature in Aguilas was 12c as we drove away, heading towards Madrid, and Santander. However the temperature plummeted as we drove north, and once it hit 0 c, that was where it stayed. We arrived in Santander at exactly 2.15pm, taking us just 9 hours to drive the 615 miles. We had one stop for diesel, and another to eat our sandwiches that Jane had prepared the night before. We got parked at the ferry terminal, when suddenly we had a huge hail storm, which lasted some 20 minuets. leaving the whole area covered in white ice.
The ferry takes 23 hours to get to Plymouth, and was not due to arrive until 6pm the following night. We had a cabin, nothing to write home about, but was comfortable enough. The crossing was smooth and uneventful and we arrived one hour ahead of schedule, at 5pm. on Friday.
Of course that meant we arrived in Plymouth right in the middle of the evening rush hour, but once we were away from the city, the drive up the M5 was without incident, and we were home by 8.45pm. Genette had been in and turned on the heating, so it was nice and cozy, despite the sub-zero temperature outside.

Heading for Home

Its Wednesday December 1st, (where does the time go?) and this will be our last posting until after we get home Friday night. Our weather has improved somewhat, and we woke to clear blue skies, and warmish temperatures, of 20c. Better than where we are heading, snow and below freeezing at home. We have just finnished a superb lunch at the Irish Rover in Mojacar, and using their wi fi while we drink our coffees. Our bags are packed, and piled up in the kitchen at the apartment awaiting us to pack them into the car.
We have an early start tomorrow, we should leave arround 6am, which will give us 12 hours to do the 600 plus miles to Santander. Ample time.......I hope.
Time to go for one last walk along the sea front before heading back to Aguilas.