Weekend with Lev and Sarah

We're just back from a relaxing weekend with Lev and Sarah up in Kirby cane. On Saturday, we went for Lunch at The Anchor in Walberswick. On the way, we stopped off to take in the ancient church in Blythburgh. Its an impressive sight, and the walk up the steps to the Priest's Room was a very tight squeeze!

Saturday evening we went for a very nice meal at The Wherry pub in Geldeston, before heading home Sunday morning.

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After last night's fun and games, we headed to the arches along Southend seafront and had had a fry-up breakfast at the Riviera Cafe on Sunday morning.

We spent Saturday night at Bernie's 40th Birthday party at Clarence Yard in Southend. We had a good evening with everyone getting into the spirit of things with Irish dancing and 'Oops Upside Your Head' among the wide variety of music played by the DJ!!

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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!