I actually had quite a nice XMAS this year... starting in Wales and now in London, it's been all good!
Xmas on the farm...
I did something I've never done before which is take up the offer of an Xmas invite - and old friend of mine's partner's parents work a 38 acre farm in West Wales, and I couldn't resist that!
It was great - just basically food, friends and lounging around. They keep cows and so we had some of their own home-reared beef on Xmas day, and I helped out with the feeding Xmas day morning - it's all hand-done, well, with the help of a tractor for moving the hay bails.
The farm is idyllic... cows, sheep, a working corgi dog, neurotic cat and ducks...
Then a 9 hour drive to London day after boxing day....
The least fun aspect of the holiday was the mammoth drive to London to stay with a friend....
This was storm day, it rained the whole journey and I was about an hour ahead of the mental weather all the way... behind me in Wales it was trees down and flooding and blocked roads, had I left an hour later I may not have got anywhere.
And it was a day in which pretty much anyone with a car had jumped in it to travel, so BUSY, busy the whole journey.
London of course was the worst... at one junction the SatNav said 10 miles to go and 1 hour 6 minutes... I could have just about run the final leg quicker than driving!
But anyway, 9 hours later I arrived and it's just been more beer, food, lounging, all good!
We took a trip to Crystal Palace park yesterday, wandered around the old site of the Great Exhibition... never been, but what a waste of an area...
All that's left is these....some terracota Sphinxes, bizarre!
Today is the first time in a week I've managed to get a bit of time to myself and am just enjoying catching up on a few Hive things before heading back to Hereford for the New Year and then back into work on the 2nd.
Overall a top Xmas 2023!