Ugh! A really bad night, my second this week, between pain and withdrawal symptoms it was sleepless, restless and never ending. Today I've been dead tired and doing doctor and pharmacy things again. You know something's not quite right in your life when you spend Hogmanay carrying carrier bags out of a pharmacy rather than an off licence! Looks like a very quiet Hogmanay with just the two of us, I do have an invite to a really good party but I'm too jiggered to attend. Roll on 2015.

This little scene presented itself in the health centre car park, Kit had the camera in her lap so did the honours. Rather than come straight home we went for a short drive round the villages, the landscape looking pretty stunning in the winter light. In all its moods and seasons there's always something in this countryside we're lucky enough to inhabit to lift the spirits. I didn't stop anywhere to take pictures of the fleeting changes and impressions, just drove slowly through it all, drinking it in.

Hope everyone has a joyful new year.