Twixmas

All that planning, shopping and cooking, over for another year!  I love Christmas but hate cooking the dinner!    I only cook a roast at Christmas and Easter as I find it a massive faff and time consuming, and I'm a lousy cook!

Over the years I've come to realise that my Christmas meal will not be perfect and there will generally be a few stressy moments before the meal reaches the table.  Not this year though!  I excelled myself and was frighteningly calm with my poor other half waiting for something, that just didn't happen this year.  It's all in the planning and champagne!  Soli joined us for Christmas duck and all the trimmings and didn't complain!  In fact he loves duck!!

No Christmas pudding this year as no one really likes it, although we did have a scrumptious pudding crawling around the lounge!

Christmas Pudding, steaming hot,  Sprinkle on the sugar, eat the lot.

After a busy Christmas it's great to be able to get away.  My favourite place to be in England is the Lake District.  Walking away from the stresses of life, recharging your batteries and 'being in the moment' is perfect here.  We have a lodge by Lake Windermere and spend as much time as we can there.

Snow topped mountains.  View from Wray Castle

On Friday morning we woke up to a blanket of snow.  Our first experience of snow at Owl lodge and it really was something special.

Loving the white stuff at Owl Lodge 

Owl Lodge.

We had a great snowy day and spent the afternoon in Grasmere.

St Oswald's church

Wordsworth's Daffodil Garden, a special place at any time of year.

                                                         

The river Rothay

 A snowy St Oswald's cemetery

Snow  selfie
 

The Gingerbread shop in Grasmere sells the best Gingerbread!  And warming ginger wine, perfect for a snowy day.

How about growing your own spoon garden?  A great idea for preschool!

Berries in the snow

I'm super, super chilled!  Bring on 2018 💙🌝