A happy new year

I've had such a lovely new year.  We had the Spencers visiting and getting up to all sorts of mischief, but my very favourite events were with my own little ones.

We had tea out at Murgatroyd's on New Year's Eve and it was just great having Tom tucking in on one side and Marisca trying to make a dent in an enormous pile of fish bites and chips on the other.  And then today we walked at Bolton Abbey, enjoying the 12 days of Christmas. It ended up being really wet and every got a bit cold, but on the way both children had plenty of giggles and Marisca was particularly great at playing in the '12 drummers drumming' spot.

What a lovely little family and what fun 2014 will be.