Last Photo of 2010...

Friday 31st December 2010

New Year's Eve today. Family didn't do very much. Spent the evening watching Die Hard 4, eating sweets, ice cream, choccy, along with drinking a leeetle bit of alcomohol and saw the New Year in by watching the London fireworks on the tv. Quiet, but nice.

Quote of the Day

Matt Farrell: "You just killed a helicopter with a car!"

John McClane: "I was out of bullets."

- Live Free or Die Hard (aka Die Hard 4, 2007)

Melted

Thursday 30th December 2010

Popped into town today to get some supermarket shopping done. On the way home we had some chocolate from my mum's handbag, only it had melted funny. Hence today's photo.

Quote of the Day

"It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man."

- Miranda Ingram

Aunties and Cousins

Wednesday 29th December 2010

Went to visit my Aunt and older cousins today. Had a very lovely meal (roast chicken for me while everyone else had lamb), lots of wine and port(!) and much hilarity. There was my Aunt and her two daughters, the eldest daughters boyfriend, my parents, my sister, my Granny and me. My Aunt knocked my Dad's glass of wine over and it flew across the table all over my cousins boyfriend. It was very funny.

The cat sat on my lap for a while, ignoring the Rottweiler-Doberman cross they have as a dog (she may be big but she's the soppiest thing in the world) and the other cat (the fat bitey one) just tried to eat our dinner!

Our cousins also bought us a mug which came with hot chocolate and mini hot-water-bottle. Very cute.

Quote of the Day

"Sausages"

- cousins boyfriend, because normally when he goes around my Aunts that's what they have for dinner!

Old Friends, New Memories

Tuesday 28th December 2010

I made the long, but lovely, trip to see some old school friends today. The train station I was going to was shut due to repair works so I had to get a train and then a bus. Instead of the 40mins/one hour journey it should have been, it took me an hour and fourty mins to get there instead but ah well!

Three of the girls were an hour late due to traffic, so my sister, the one friend that had got there on time, and me sat and did some catching up until they arrived. When everyone turned up we had coffee and lunch and a general natter before braving some of the post-Christmas sale shops. Very very busy. I got a lipstick. Red red red!

Hung around until late evening and then the sister and I caught the bus/train home. All in all a lovely day.

Quote of the Day

This is an odd one. I don't know who it's by but a friend posted it on Facebook a year or so ago when we lost a lot of people we'd once considered friends. It's since become one of my favourite quotes. And is very very true.

"There comes a point in your life, when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future."

Christmas Fireplace

Monday 27th December 2010

Today's photo shows the fireplace in my parent's house. Looking all dressed up for Christmas!

Went into the local town today just to the supermarket (thrilling!) and watched Rhod Gilbert's "The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst" show in the evening.

Here's to lazy holiday-days!

Quote of the Day

The blurb about Rhod Gilbert's show:

"Last year, Rhod punched a shop-assistant over the duvet tog-rating system and went berserk over a mince pie. This year he's given his show a ridiculous title just to annoy someone in Canterbury. Is he a visionary in a sea of closed minds, or has he got anger-management problems?"

Boxing Day

[Present pictures! - when I get them off my parent's camera]

Sunday 26th December 2010

Boxing Day 2010.

Said goodbye to Granny this morning after breakfast and drove home to find the last of our Christmas presents waiting for us under the tree. I got some lovely red weighing scales, a Rhod Gilbert dvd, Take That's new cd (Progress) from my sister, money for clothes... lots of new stuff! I was once again spoilt.

Gave Mum and Dad the rest of their presents - Dad got a Barbour bag from my mum, sister and me and he didn't get angry about it! Mum got a blackboard for the kitchen. I got my sister a furry Chewbacca that makes noises when you squeeze it.

Watched tv in the evening, ate food and generally chilled out.

Christmas Day

[Photo to follow soon - I left my Christmas pictures at home]

Saturday 25th December 2010

Christmas Day today! It was a really lovely day. Quiet, just my mum and dad, my sister, my mum's mother and me. We opened some presents - I got new boots, underwear, (500) Days of Summer dvd, money from Granny and Uncle, all of Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch trilogy (that is actually four books... go figure!) and lots of other lovely stuff!

We'd left a few presents back at home as we couldn't bring everything to Granny's. I got my sister some silicon cupcake cases and a strap so she can wear her iPod around her arm when she's at the gym. My sister and I got Granny a gluten-free baking book and a £10 book voucher.

Christmas dinner was lovely and, typically, very very filling. We also kicked off the drinking early with Bucks Fizz (champagne and orange juice) at around 11am. Chilled out in the afternoon and watched the traditional tv: Queen's Speech at 3pm and then the Dr. Who Christmas Special which is always good. There's also Strictly Come Dancing and other fun treats.

A really nice Christmas.

Quote of the Day

Has to be some Dr. Who/Matt Smith quotes from the Christmas special:

"Ah! Yes! Blimey, sorry! Christmas Eve on a rooftop, I saw a chimney... my whole brain just went "What the hell"!"

"Father Christmas, Santa Claus, or, as I've always known him, Jeff."

"Ah! Big, flashy, lighty thing, that's what brought me here. Big, flashy, lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time. And a crayon."

- The Doctor (2010)