Sam the Snowman has done the Christmas shopping, prepared the food – he’s popped the TV on and is sitting down with a nice cold beer* to await the arrival of the family.
* not pictured
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Day 106: Are you waiting for the family to arrive?
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Day 105: Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
In today’s photo, Sam the Snowman is keeping a close eye on the glasses cupboard to ensure Santa doesn’t get his hands on any of that nasty drink stuff.
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Less Freezing
Well, it’s less freezing this week than it was last week! When I say “less freezing”, I basically mean we haven’t had any snow. Or at least, we had a little bit this morning but in general the temperature has been much higher. It was even sunny today!
Anyway, that means it’s the perfect time to talk about what we’ve been up to. On Friday night we weren’t out at 21, as per … um… not usual! It was cancelled because of the snow. Last Wednesday and Thursday I didn’t go into work because of the snow, so I think it was a good decision. Fortunately on Saturday it warmed up and the snow started to melt. Phil’s sister Roz came up on Saturday and Phil and Roz spent a fair bit of the day doing Christmas shopping. While they were doing Christmas shopping, in the afternoon I popped in to the London Camera Exchange in town and bought myself a new camera. I’ve been talking about getting one for a while now, and I eventually decided to bite the bullet and splash out. It’s a Sony NEX-5, which is a proper Digital SLR. I will post up about it here in due course, but suffice it to say that I’ve been using it for the past few days and have been very happy with it 🙂 You can see the results of what I’ve been doing on Flickr, although don’t look too closely just yet! – I feel like I’ve not really got to grips with the camera just yet, one day soon I’m just going to take a while and sit down with the manual, try to work things all out.
On Saturday evening we went round to AJ and Jen’s house for a games night. It was a really nice evening – I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in one evening in ages! We met one of Jen’s friends from uni (Claire), and had great fun playing Uno, and Metro (which is a good game I’ll have to blog about some time), and Family Fortunes. And just chatting and listening to Christmas tunes. So I hope that’s an evening we can repeat sometime soon!
On Sunday we went to the Eight Ash Green service in the morning, then came back home for lunch. Did a bit of Moore Course studying in the afternoon, then in the evening went out to Sunday@6. I was leading the music – I felt like we were a bit under-prepared for it but in general it seemed to go pretty well.
Anyway, that’s pretty much our weekend. Yesterday night, Phil was out at a PCC meeting so I stayed in and basically finished off the essay I have to hand in to the diocese: they’ve asked me to write an essay about ministry in the Church of England and how I might fulfil that responsibility, so I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on that recently. It has to be in next week, but as I’m pretty much done that’s not a problem now!
Right, think that’s pretty much everything. All for now…
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Day 103: Lake near Castle Park frozen over
Taken this afternoon. Unfortunately it had turned quite grey by this point but still, think this photo works quite well anyway. Despite the snow thawing, this part of the lake was frozen over!
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Day 102: Night view from Middle Mill
Taken from my new camera – more on that later 😉
This is a view from Middle Mill across the Colne towards Charles and Stuart house (where we used to live 😉 It looks quite picturesque at night, doesn’t it?
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Slade Photo Challenge
A week or two ago, Alex e-mailed me with a challenge: each weekday in the run-up to Christmas, for our project 365 pictures we will need to make it on a theme of the lyrics to Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone (one line per day, i.e. today was “Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall”, tomorrow’s will be “It’s that time every Santa has a ball” etc.)
Anyway, I just thought I’d better explain some of the random photos in case anyone was curious! My first entry is on Flickr now. I don’t think it’s very good, Alex will probably be better at these because he’s got more practice with these kind of things! Still, it’s all good fun 🙂
I don’t have very much Christmas stuff either – might have to run up into town on Saturday and get one or two little bits…
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Weekend Style Update
Just realised I haven’t done a weekend style update thing this week yet. We didn’t really get up to much: Friday night – 21. Saturday – a bit of Christmas shopping, then in the evening stayed home and watched a DVD. On Sunday we went to church in the morning, then afterwards went round to Tim and Katie’s for lunch. That was a really nice time, AJ and Jen were there along with Mike & Dani and Dave. Then in the evening we went to Sunday@6, then came back home and watched Spinal Tap.
So there you have it. That was our weekend. Fun times!
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Day 98: Branch laden with snow
We had a fair amount of snow today. This is one of the trees near our office, laden with snow. Not the best picture I’ve ever taken but it was freezing cold outside, and snowing, and I didn’t want to hang around 😉
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Day 97: Tree Stump
I think this one came out surprisingly well. Surprising because I was in a bit of a hurry – it was another freezing cold day!
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Day 96: Pills
It’s that time of year again. No, not the time for raving – the time to bring out the Strepsils: I’ve had a sore throat for the past few days! Feeling better now, but still…it’s just the time of year.
