Happy New Year....

.....We're home again after a long weekend with Charlotte and Matt in Newcastle.  It was cold, but not as cold as on previous visits and Charlotte's flat is cosy anyway, not ice-y cold like her student house. 

     Also celebrated Darsh's birthday, with a meal at the "Treehouse" in Alnwick.  Yes it really was a tree house- in a tree reached by ladders and bridges...

My inside photos are very blurry and don't do the place any favours, but it was very pretty with lots of fairy lights, candles and a log fire.  The food was pretty good too!

 Back at Charlotte's, Selina and Pete enjoyed the new 3D telly. (They had flown up to join us on Friday evening after work.)

Charlotte has painted her big wall bright purple, and treated herself to a metal floor lamp in the sales.  It cast patterns up along the wall and ceiling, making the room feel cosy and warm, now she needs new sofas and centre lights1  The joy of home ownership...

Matt got a mixer, cookery book and cakestand for Christmas, so he made afternoon tea and we scoffed the lot, no problem whatsoever...

Home again now, everyone back to work today.  The house is very cold after been empty for nearly a week.  I am catching up on jobs and need to take the trimmings down before the weekend.  Darsh is looking forward to his brother coming next week.