Winter sunshine, downpours and rainbows...

The plan was that life would calm down once my brother arrived; how wrong was I! Left home at 8am and returned at 2pm, spending those intervening six hours continuously driving around Bath and Bristol, running a list of errands that got longer and longer by the minute. As the morning wore on, so my lurgy started to head back downhill, so rearranged plans to meet up with friends at the Après Ski Bar had to be abandoned yet again. So here you have the single photo that I took today, driving into Bath at the start of the day when the sun was blindingly low, shining through the stormy clouds...

Just for my own memory’s sake, the 19 stops that my brother and I made in those six hours!

1. Local Supermarket - food shopping for mum’s housebound friend
2. Bath hospital - removal of mum’s plaster cast, at last!
3. Weston village - drop of/collect Christmas presents from friend W
4. Bristol - drop off mum at her friend’s for Christmas visit
5. Bristol supermarket - in search of German Christmas goodies
6. Bristol DIY shop - in search of light bulb for Santa - failed
7. Bristol Currys - brother bought my Crimbo pressie
8. Bristol M&S - Chocolate Yule Log, the best in the world!
9. Bristol DIY shop - in search of light bulb for Santa - failed
10. Bristol DIY shop - in search of light bulb for Santa - failed
11. Bristol DIY shop - in search of light bulb for Santa - success!
12. Bristol - pick up mum
13. Local garden centre - buy holly
14. Local post office - collect parcels
15. Drop mum home
16. Deliver Christmas present to friend B
17. Bath supermarket - further search for German Christmas goodies
18. Bath - McDonalds for much-needed sustenance, a Chocolate Ice Cream Sundae!
19. Local supermarket - for Chef to pick up final bits and pieces and Samfrey for evening meal
20. Home and collapse in heap...

(Thank you so much for your recent good wishes, stars and hearts, sorry I don’t have time to thank you individually at the moment...)