So, after tidying up and signing off the flat it was mid November and time to sign over another building!
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| Slowly but surely I was getting rid of my big bunch of jailer keys! |
16th November was completion day and all of the legal bits of papers were in place. I paid a stupid lot of money to get it gone out of my hair but by 1pm it was transferred and done - 577 Mansfield Road was now the problem of Courtnaey Investments Limited! In the evening I *celebrated* (hmmmmmmmm) by attending week 7 of the badly taught web design course I signed up for (ncn part-time - never EVER again!!!)
Over the following weeks I worked at the
Limehouse Cafe and for
Raphael. I signed up to the dentist (after 8 years since my last visit!? Eeeeek!), and on 25th November it was my sister's birthday, so I took her,
Dave and me to Manchester to see
Underworld!
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| We went here for breakfast! |
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| Then it started to snow! |
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| So I thought it was probably time to decorate! |
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| maybe a little bit early... |
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| ..but then it was my first Christmas.. |
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| ...and it did make it feel VERY cosy! |
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| I spent time with Mike (whilst he and pixie sang carols...) |
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| it snowed A LOT! |
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| we visited Sheffield |
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| AND it was Mike's birthday!!! |
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| I baked a stollen.. |
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| steamed a pudding.. |
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| made some chestnut and chocolate cream cookies... |
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| and baked some bread! |
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| I was very happy in my Christmas kitchen... |
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...and super happy to be in my new home! I was so very proud in fact that I took this great picture, looking through the kitchen window to the lounge/diner - I love the twinkling of all the pretty lights and the layers created by the reflections in the glass!
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24th December 2010
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| it's Christmas Eve and Mike brings round Pixie cat! She really doesn't like it though so we take her back home :( |
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| Christamas eve is Mike's specialty! |
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With honey roast ham, dauphinoise potatoes, Brussels sprout cheesecake, spiced red cabbage and mulled wine trifle - I'm in total festive yum yum heaven!
25th December 2010: Merry Christmas!
We have champagne for breakfast, with smoked salmon benedict and spinach
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| and for lunch we had this beautiful bird! |
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| I speak to my sister and brother over skype |
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| whilst in Australia mum and dad disappear! |
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| Ben, Claire and Robert pop round |
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| we munch on leftovers and drink port till the early hours |
29th December 2010: Tilly Baggaley is born!7lb 12oz
31st December 2010
As may become tradition at the end of the year, we went to the cinema! It was great actually - really quiet! We saw Tron Legacy, in screen 3 of
Broadway
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| Here is Pixie watching the original Tron the night before! (it's playing behind her but you can see her watching it in the mirror opposite! And I like the way I've given her Tron eyes with the flash!) |
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| We ate a delectible mezze on the cusp of 2011 and set off a paper lantern into the night sky |
So that was 2010, phew! What a bucket load of stuff!
Onwards then to the beginning of another adventure...
