I see the holidays have come and gone since my last post. Yep, that's about it.
Well yes, all things considered they were reasonably nice holidays. Incredibly lovely to be with Adam and Andrew again. Incredibly frustrating not to have enough time to sit down for a leisurely meal and long chats with them. Next time I will send them tickets to come over, one long weekend each. Then it's the Kew Steam Museum, Syon Park and several long leisurely meals and visits to local traditional pubs.
We did New Years Eve at Ron & Hilary's with Ron, Hilary, Laurie and Pete, Alan and I as usual but this year I did the meal. A sort of Communist/Russian theme - Borsht with blinis and smoked salmon, dim sum (tiny chinese dumplings - yes, of course homemade!) beef stroganov with rice, onion and tomato chutney (with great thanks to Richard for the recipe. It was a complete rave! Everyone snapped it all up.) Dessert was Leningrads - a creme brulee made with kirschwasser and black forest cherries in the creme bit. The brulee bit was perfect and crackled and shattered deliciously. Watched fireworks on the telly - amazing display we want to watch live next year.
So the holidays have come and gone.
We definitely need a house. This flat is impossibly small.
