Misty...

A moody photo of The Shard, with its top disappearing into the low cloud over London today.

Glow Sticks

We took some 'experimental' photos in the garden with Markus waving his glow sticks around on a 5 second shutter speed.

While Ingvild and Jose went off for a round of Golf at Maylands, the rest of us took the bus down to Valentine's Park where we all fed the squirrels (including one that bit my finger!) and looked at the birds (including the wildly coloured Mandarin Ducks). We had a coffee and something to eat at the Gardeners Cottage Cafe before heading home.

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Xmas Presents

We're having a belated Xmas celebration with Siv's family from Oslo. Here we are modelling our very Kung Fu dressing gowns we got, plus a video of Hedda very excited about all the presents!

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Dad's Port

We decanted the bottle of port that Dad gave us a few weeks ago. The cork just crumbled away, and we had to decant the rest before too much residue came out, and we passed it through a filter. The end results are extremely smooth and drinkable!

Luke's Stag Night

I went with Dave and Len to meet Luke at The Lamb in Leadenhall Market, as it was his Stag night ahead of his wedding next week. A bit of a rowdy night with quite a number of people turning up that Luke knows.

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Snowy weekend in Ely

We're just back from a relaxing weekend with Caroline and the girls in Ely. Due to the heavy snow on Saturday night, we were able to go out in the garden on Sunday morning and make a snowman family. Of course Daisy enjoyed being out with us and playing out in the snow!

Ely Snowman Family from martin clinton on Vimeo.

Off to see The Artist

Siv and I saw The Artist today, a very good film...its silent, Black and White, and a lot of the time the actors are totally upstaged by Uggie the dog! After the film, we wandered back through Bloomsbury and Soho to have lunch at Giraffe in Frith Street, followed by a coffee at Bar Italia before heading home.

Late Xmas celebrations

We had a late Xmas celebration with the family on Saturday. We kept all of the Xmas decorations up to try and keep the seasonal spirit going! Trevor kindly donated to me this year's Xmas card from Joltin' Joe Sinnott, which was a Marvel themed one this year. The morning after Grace sent us a photo of Millie enjoying her Xmas bone!

After effects of Dagmar

Here's a casualty of last night's huge storm 'Dagmar' in Norway. Siv's Mum's neighbour Anders has had this 30 foot / 10 metre high tree blown over....Good thing he owns a chain saw!

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Xmas photos

Here we are spending Xmas in Norway, and a few photos of the wintry weather before the rain washes it all away!

Cittie of yorke meet up

A group of us met up in the Cittie of Yorke for a pre-xmas drink, a good time had by all at bargain Sam Smith's prices!

PJ's animated Xmas Card

We got this amusing animated Xmas card from PJ, made using the Talking Santa and Ginger app from the android market.

Xmas dinner practice for Anne

Anne decided to have a practice run at this year's Xmas dinner, so invited some of us round to try it out. It was a very enjoyable evening, with the girls watching the final of this year's Strictly Come Dancing. The turkey crown went a very long way...I imagine Paul and Anne will still be eating turkey by Xmas when they'll have more!

Lunchtime meet up with Luke

Dave, Loz and I met up with Luke at lunchtime in The Lamb in Leadenhall Market. Good to see him again and a have a chat. Managed to take this slightly blurry photo before we left.