New Year

New Year's Eve, I suddenly got the urge to clean and tidy the house.  Matt and Tom were dispatched to the tip with lots of cardboard, whilst I got out the cleaning stuff.  I tidied and then scrubbed down the kitchen, then went into the lounge to attempt to re-claim it.  Dvds were scattered across the floor, so I went through them in an attempt to get rid of some.  Matt and Tom came home at that point so I made them go through them too - we got rid of 2 big bags.  It felt good, but somehow the Dvd shelves don't seem any emptier?!  Oh hum.

I carried on my quest - tidying, laundering, washing up etc until I was happy.  Matt and Tom sat down to do some lego (building the landrover from Uncle Martin) and I started to do some computer work just as the Komorovskis arrived.  Oh well.

Only 3 of them came (Leia is 12 going on 16 and didn't want to come as she would be bored (she was is probably right)  They came through the door announcing that they wanted a walk.  Perfect, so we headed straight out, did a large lap of the village, then Storr's Common and then popped in to see the Holmans as they were having a house warming.  We did think we would only stay about 30 mins, but Adam and especially Karen are pretty sociable and we ended up staying for a couple of hours, helped by the fact that Rosa made friends with Lily dog meaning she was very happily occupied.

Got back home and had to sober up in order to cook dinner!

We didn't have a riotous New Years, but a happy, social night chatting with friends.  Tom did a good job of keeping Rosa company (she can be quite demanding) and didn't even mind when she was obviously cheating when playing a game.  Didn't get to bed until after 2am.  I would say that was pretty good going!

New Year's Day - the Komorowskis headed home after brunch, so we went off for a walk.  Decided to see if the squirrels were out playing at Snaizeholme.  They were, in very good form, think we saw a good 9 or so of them playing.  By the big house one spent a good 10 minutes collecting nuts from us and burying them in the lawn.  They are very cute and very busy - very very difficult to get a decent photo of them - although Matt (of course did).  It was a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon.  We then went up to Wensleydale for a spot of cheese, but it was closed, so we came back home and had a lazy afternoon / evening.  Well deserved after yesterday!

On the 2nd Matt decided to do some work, so Tom and I went for a lap of the waterfalls - to get some fresh air if nothing else.  It wasn't the nicest of days but it didn't rain so can't complain.  It wasn't particularly busy and we did it quite quickly.  Tom was suffering from VD (verbal diarrhoea) so kept me occupied for most of the trail.  We decided to have lunch at INglesport where we bumped into the Perkins which was nice.  Janine then got in touch and told us to drop by afterwards which we did.  Didn't get home until 4pm, and we had a dinner date at the Fosters so we just had time for a shower each before heading out again.  Now, with the invitation being from Anne, we decided we couldn't turn up on time, so we decided half an hour late would be about right - which we did.  Think she went the other way and thought that as it was us we would arrive exactly on time and had things ready for us before we arrived - lol!

Anyway, we had a fabulous night hanging out with them.  Such a a lovely family, lots of chatter and a new game (Mexican Train) which we got the hang of quickly, even though only the children seemed to win?!  It was a good night out, didn't get back until after 11pm!