....well, that's it then....

So that's the holiday over...one last shot of the conservatory...or as it's been known for the last three weeks...the Grotto.

The decorations and the tree will be down tomorrow...the Boss went back to work today and the Daughter is back to work tomorrow......as is the S & H...and I will be on Monday.

We went to D and V's last night....they'd been here on the 30th to meet Hannah and have some supper...and we'd both mentioned that we weren't doing anything for new year.......so yesterday afternoon we got a phone call..."Come to us tonight.....about 10.00....we'll have a few drinks and some nibbles...see in the new year...and a relatively early night".

Sounded like a plan.

We arrived just after 10.00 to find V's sister and her husband there...and they were as the Irish say "with drink taken"....so there we where...3 Geordies, 2 half Russians and a Spaniard...and we had a few drinks....then D revealed a buffet....then I got shoved outside with D and some coal, salt and bread to "bring in the New Year.........and then V insisted on watching Gary Barlow...torture...and we had a few more drinks....and the Boss and I wandered home...and had a drink.....and suddenly it was 4.15!

I got up at 7.30 this morning...made breakfast...and woke the Boss and daughter around noon..the Boss went off to work.....the S & H, YH, Charlie and Hannah came over around 3.00....I fed everybody...lots of prawns, chicken and mushrooms involved...the Boss got home...we had a drink and then bed....I have a day to myself tomorrow!

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