Would you Adam and New Year's Eve it?

Hoar frost

C&O revisit their childhoods

C, the swinger

Counting down to the end of 2010. Most of you will already have celebrated and gone to bed, but here our guests - C&O and friends - are just getting ready to go out, and J is also deciding what to wear. There has been a disaster with Big Ben which is used to toll the New Year. Apparently the clock running it is 2 seconds slow! Cancel New Year.

We survived Christmas though I have eaten and drunk enough for three weeks, and now feel like Santa Claus looks. God help me next weekend when we restart the hockey season!

The Crescent under snow

Kennet and Avon Canal

C&O have been wandering about Bath and Bristol to fill in their time. Lots of shopping, though too much to actually fit in their bags so stuff is being thrown out again. We went to Cribb's Causeway - a huge cathedral to mammon - the other day and did some ice-skating which was rather enjoyable. Not much was bought except from Hobbycraft where I got some modelling stuff to help with my next project. J also got a paint-by-numbers to keep people amused. I have been teaching C&O all I know about being a poor loser at Risk. Stupid game.



The snow was washed away on Wednesday and it has been overcast since then. It has been the coldest December since, well, the last really cold one. The Avon and the canals were frozen over, though not enough to walk on.

Rental longboats iced in.

Happy New Year everyone!