Hello! Happy new year!
End of 2010 was spent in the UK and it was a magical, special trip.
My brother got married in perfect Graham and Kirsty style in early November - a beautiful couple of days that will stick in our memories forever.
Gregg stayed in the country a bit longer than his whirlwind jet-lagged 10 day initiation in 2008, and hung around for a month before heading back to NZ, leaving me at home for a further 5 weeks. The major focus of this visit was time with family and it was great to be able to do that. The crazy snowfall definitely changed plans a heck of a lot (although if we thought that was bad, I'd still rather a 'mild' disruption than the flood hell they're going through in parts of Australia at the moment!), and it also had its upside: mum works at a school, so with the closures got lots of extra days off for us to spend together!
I still packed in snippets of the old favourites and smatterings of new experiences too - lots of trips to Boots, Marks & Spencers and Long Tall Sally; castles galore; walks with the dog; a visit to Grandie in the Lake District; building a snow fort in the garden; lots of music playing; helping Graham & Kirsty decorate their new home; a weekend in London to see Kathy and show Gregg the big lights of a real city ;o); panto; and so the list goes on. I may also have single-handedly kept the gluhwein stall at the Edinburgh German Christmas Market afloat in a short space of time...
It's always a treasure to have christmas at home and we also had the (now rare) pleasure of the original 5 Odds seeing in the new year together with 'mental' fireworks (see earlier blog post).
Despite it taking a 36-hour, screaming baby filled flight to get back it really did all seem to be over in a flash. I'm sat here in shorts and sandals avoiding the blazing sunshine outside and pondering the next 4 weeks of close to nothing before my teacher training course kicks off. Very strange. The next few months will also include a possible move of house (watch this space), plenty of outdoorsy stuff and the return to NZ of a good friend (yay!). Quietly exciting times.
Lots of new photos are up, including the trip to the UK - http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddballproductions/.
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