Ceilidh celebrations

The dress code for Suzy’s party was a little more flattering than last time, being as it was just a splash of tartan. I had absolutely no tartan and so took to Ebay to see what I could find. I settled on a skirt originally from H&M and it turned up in plenty of time [...]

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Lady Godiva

Suzy celebrated her 30th birthday at the weekend with a ceilidh, which is a party with Scottish or Irish folk music and dancing. It was hilarious fun and I’ll post more about the party, but for now, here’s a taster of the dancing.

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7 Days: Day 7 – The third day of Christmas

Last day, folks! It’s been another great week and thank you all for playing along. My Day 7 contribution is a joint John/Sarah effort, as John’s is today. John’s holding the camera and you’ll see me with its remote, which is many times the size of the one for my D80, crouching by the girls’ [...]

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7 Days: Day 6 – It wasn’t me

We are at my aunt and uncle’s today for Boxing Day … and of course, being my cousin, Russ is here too. The outside tree is beautifully covered in lights and so I went out to admire them and take my picture. Not long after I returned indoors, Dad noticed that a swathe of lights [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Christmas Eve

Suzy and I celebrated Christmas Eve with Chinese takeaway tonight. The plan was to watch Love Actually too, but it turned out, I suppose unsurprisingly, that we can fill an evening with talking quite easily, so the DVD stayed in my bag. The Chinese food was delicious and we polished off a bottle of delightful [...]

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28/30: And you thought pine needles were messy

Yes, boys and girls, you too could have a hot pink Christmas tree with its own falling polystyrene snow. I’m guessing this isn’t really intended for households with babies or kittens … or taste.

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15/30: Birthday bulb

Well, I guess it’s not bad going if it took me until halfway through the month of posting every day before I had a half past eleven “oh crap, I’ve not blogged anything yet” run-on sentence moment. I’ve been stuck in front of the computer all day, doing various things and then warring with some [...]

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13/30: Birthday – part deux

Today is not only birthday time for Ray and Nina, but also birthday part deux for me with a visit to John, Sam and the little bundles of squidge – who are really not so little any more, but are still very squidgy. After a morning spent in my dressing gown (which I never do), [...]

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