HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 Jean - and also to you and yours!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

I was writing next Monday's flash fiction as the clocks chimed midnight last night, and I hope it's a good precendent for the coming year. 

Today I did very little but DH and bear have been sorting out bear's room. My boot and the living room is full of black bin bags. I have a tip run booked on Monday, but then I will have to make sure that I'm keeping up the bookings. We are only allowed two tip runs per household per week, and I can see a lot of sorting out happening. Bear is now a teenager, and the miscellaneous scraps and bits that younger kids accumulate aren't important to him anymore. 

I went out for a quick drive to stretch my wheels, trying to get the courage up to go on the motorway when it was quiet. It wasn't that quiet. In fact, the roads were busier than I expected. They weren't actually busy in an absolute sense, but I was far too nervous to try the motorway today, especially as there were still plenty of patches of frozen snow around. I was surprised that so many places were open!

We had a gammon joint for dinner with roast potatoes and peas followed by a spare Christmas pudding with brandy butter and brandy cream. Now I am so full that I can barely move. 

Hugs and good health to all

AND A HAPPY, HEALTH AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!