Happy New Year!

How are you feeling? I really have lost track of the days and suddenly realised it’s Friday! We have had a lovely time with family enjoying time together – getting everyone here is a challenge and happens rarely, so you can imagine the levels of excitement and noise as our adult children and their spouses (spice?) caught up with each other on Boxing Day. Hubby and I had enjoyed a delicious piece of Topside from our favourite local butcher on Christmas day and then it just had to be turkey for our family on the evening of Boxing day. I particularly enjoy eating the cold meats with pickles and chutney, but we try to send the young people home with whatever they’d prefer from the leftovers 😉 The freezer is also looking pretty empty right now as some of them went home with boxes of minestrone and also tomato soup so I think a restock is needed. We’re all out of mince pies too, thanks to the beleagured shopkeepers…but it’s the New Year..and we look forward to it and hope you do too ;