Day 108: The Old Songs are the Best Originally uploaded by phillsacre Today’s line “Does your granny always tell you that the old songs are the best?” Sam the Snowman is fetching down some old songs which granny might like!

Day 107: Are you sure you’ve got the room to spare inside? Originally uploaded by phillsacre Sam the Snowman is sure about the room, but he’s not sure about the bed space. He’s popped up into the cupboard to check on the status of the airbeds and sleeping bags, just in case…

Day 106: Are you waiting for the family to arrive? Originally uploaded by phillsacre 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

Day 105: Do the fairies keep him sober for a day? Originally uploaded by phillsacre 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.

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…

Day 103: Lake near Castle Park frozen over Originally uploaded by phillsacre 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!

Day 102: Night view from Middle Mill Originally uploaded by phillsacre 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?

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…

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…

Day 98: Branch laden with snow Originally uploaded by phillsacre 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 😉