Trees.

Winter has its own kind of beauty and I do think that these trees do look quite amazing with their intricate pattern of dark branches. 

the weather continues to be very lacklustre with lots of drizzly showers. Everywhere is rather damp which is not so nice! 

Today I prepared for a lockdown Dinner Party! We did this in the last lockdown where we do a proper posh nosh dinner with all bells and whistles! Lets be honest we could eat off the floor and no one would notice so its good to keep standards up !!! 

I had frozen a couple of Guinea Fowl a few weeks ago when it was on offer, and together with a pheasant ,I also needed to use up , this provided a very nice feast. My starter was a sharing platter of charcuterie I had left over from Christmas and a packet of Smoked salmon I had frozen. After much though I opted for using the last Christmas pudding I had! 

We had a most enjoyable evening with both the little ones having a sleep over too! 

As lockdown continues the numbers of Covid cases and deaths are still rising but at least vaccination is now well under way. Worrying times.....