Winter Wonderland!

Had a wonderful pre Christmas eve day at home today. Was absolutely perfect. Got up and drove to "Lutterworth" to fetch Dave F and we went to "Morrisons". Got ingredients for some cute little Christmas treats we're going to dole out as presents.

Reindeer sweets: melt chocolate and spoon into a circle on greaseproof paper. Add matchmakers for antlers, halved white chocolate buttons for ears, dark choc mini buttons for eyes and another white choc button for nose as I forgot to buy glace cherries.

Then we met Leils, Hayden and Hayden's sister Catherine for a pub lunch in "Chequers" in "Ullesthorpe". These words must sound very alien to outta towners but I assure you they're very normal countryside places. I had chicken tikka. Oh so festive. Maybe I could be like Prince Albert and start some new Christmas traditions!

Then we popped back to "Monks Kirby" and went for our second walk in the fields that day with "Lexie". Had lots of fun playing on the iced over lake until the cracking sounds got ominous. Was less Casualty than earlier on in the day when Lexie was chasing ducks over the ice and fell through. Whoops. It was kinda funny because he looked so amusing struggling to get out but also very worrying and upsetting. Luckily Dave ran to his rescue with no thought to his own safety and managed to pull him out. Poor doggy. Thankfully within seconds of chasing pheasants he was dry and warm again. Aside from that scare we all thoroughly enjoyed the day.

After that we had a cup of tea and I drove everyone back to "Lutterworth". Now I'm sitting by the fire watching Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. Don't think this day could get any better.

Bye for now reindeers, I love you just the way you are.*. xxxxxx

*Bridget Jones reference just incase others aren't as into RomComs as me.