Year of the dog

Happy Chinese New Year!

Today was the end of my week-long looking after my aged mother in law, whilst her partner was visiting his family. She can't be left on her own over night now, she has Parkinson's, and keeps getting mixed up and hallucinating...which is worse at night. It's just as well we get on!

Then this evening I took the girls to our friends' for dinner. We had Chinese home cooked food, including fish, which brings good fortune for the coming year, apparently. We had fortune cookies and Chinese dragons and played Chinese whispers! Followed by 'pug decorated' cupcakes for year of the dog!