Ho Ho Ho...

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that you and yours are happy and well.

We had a typically busy time running around family and friends having decamped from our home due to weather concerns. Snowy landscapes are all well and good on festive cards and the TV, but not so much fun when you are trapped at home or have to tramp miles through the frozen landscape.

But we managed to get everywhere without incident and only a little amount of inconvenience and we saw almost everyone we wanted too, including some of our antipodean friends who were visiting.

We had a fun family celebration at Sue’s Mum’s house where we gave out a DVD to each of Sue’s family that was a copy of a VHS copy of original Cine films recorded by her grandfather. There was much fun seeing the siblings as young children at Xmas, birthday parties or even in the bath. Although the cine film is silent the process of copying it to VHS was done such that you could hear the reels running and comments from the guy doing the copying, this was only really evident when the last reel was being copied and it became clear that this was an early black and white porno (naughty granddad), and we were amused at the copyists comments as he too realised what it was.

Santa brought me a nice new (almost new) Digital SLR camera which I have to learn how to use before we go away on our next holiday (more on this in a later blog).