Update

So this new system is painfully slow....... It takes forever to upload photos, possibly not doing it right, will have to practise!

Anyway, Christmas is over! We had a lovely time visiting family after Christmas Day... Botolph Wylies on Boxing Day, Maids Moreton Circuits the day after. Went to see Snow White at Northampton - didn't take any photos but had a fabulous time (Oh no you didn't, oh yes we did etc!). Then we trundled home to get antibiotics for Madeline's nasty cough and that was that until Sunday when we did a bit of a tour of London. Visited Nanny Doris first, climbed on everything there. Then Auntie Carol and Uncle Steve (Grandad's big sister), trashed baby toys there. Then Pete and Court's new pad, tried VERY hard to trash plates etc and popped a thousand bubbles before finally heading to the Gaskells for general merriment and festivities. The children were all great together - Jessica looked particularly old amongst them all. Once the children were in bed we had a lovely meal and played some games before Jessica decided she was scared of the fireworks so this year was the first one where we saw the New Year in with both our children awake. Nice! They did go back to sleep eventually, as did we and the following morning saw the boys running away to play golf while the girls kept house and children. Tim and Nick also managed to helpfully take their respective car keys with them (although not the actual cars - "you might need them".... Not without the b****y keys!). So we had to borrow various outfits and buggies from The Gaskells and carry Alice the 15 min walk to the park to try and pacify them all. All good fun though and they all liked the swings etc.

Once New Year was done we were pretty quiet until yesterday when we went to another panto - this time MK with Janet and Graham. Again a great time was had by all - apparently I showed them all up as I was shouting so loud and I did have a bit of a sore throat afterwards, but isn't that how it's supposed to be?

So back to normal now. Monkey Music starts tomorrow, Playschool starts on Tuesday and I'm back at work on Wednesday... better go and plan what I'm doing!

Bye
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