Managed to get back before the bad weather really set in....

....and Charlotte got to see several properties she liked the look of.  Now they just have to agree to the price dad thinks they are worth.  There was so much ice still hanging around in Newcastle, but it wasn't horribly cold.  But Darsh was really under the weather, so once we had seen the properties we came home and spent a couple of days in the warm for him to recover.
     Sara and John got here OK but then had a job getting away again, the flight was delayed by hours and hours.  Selina and Pete came over as well, and they are still here, working from home rather than facing all that snow in a smart car.  We had Christmas dinner on Sunday and opened lots of presents.  S and J bought us a Wii, the girls think we will never use it, I want to have a go, but haven't got there as yet.  Darsh gave me a camera he brought back from Malaysia, it was wrapped up in a bag with a packet of sugar!  Why does he do it?  Why can't he just give out a nicely wrapped present, without a "how silly am I" factor?  Remember the gold braclet with a box of tampax, and a pretty silver bracelet in an empty crisp packet he found on the floor.
     Got into Birmingham yesterday and was surprised to find it all so busy, done all my shopping, so just had a good wander round Selfridges.  Lots of the lovely things I fancied have all gone, so I don't think the shops have had a too bad a christmas.  Attempted the German market, but it was just too slippery to enjoy it.
'Am going to have a go at downloading some of my pics from my new camera, but I don't really now how, John was going to give me a lesson but the weekend flew by so fast that we never got round to it.