New Year celebrations!

New Year's Eve

The grey gloom gave way this morning, for a brief while at least, to spells of sunshine. We went over to see Mum and Dad and had a coffee with them before returning home. Sophie went off to the gym and I pottered about while she was gone.

In the afternoon we went to Beckworth for a slice of very gooey cake and it was much quieter than expected. Everything was a little bit subdued and after we'd enjoyed our cake, we wandered around but it seemed a little sad as there was just tat on sale from Christmas.

We didn't buy anything as we are all foodied out! We returned home and I sat and watched Maleficent on the television before helping Keith with dinner. We'd planned on having chicken en croute but we had beef left over from yesterday and some veggies so we made bubble and squeak again and cooked some oven chips in the air fryer. This time it worked OK, and the chips were lovely and crispy. Buoyed up by our success we put some onion rings in there as well and they were delicious!

After dinner we enjoyed Crocodile Dundee 2 and Mike dressed up to go and see his friends in the village. We changed and went over to Richard and Michelle's house at 10.30pm as we were seeing the New Year in with them and Paul and Sue.

We all sat in their beautiful living room and played a great game where we each had to come up with five names of people, either celebrities or people we knew. For the first round we had to give a short description of as many as we could in one minute. The second round saw us miming who they were (hilarious, especially as someone had said Fanny Craddock!) and the third round we had to give just a one word description. It was very funny indeed and Sophie loved miming! We split into two groups, male and female, and I'm proud to say that us ladies won, even though the men said it wasn't fair as there were more of us!

After the game we were given a glass of Champagne and we watched the fireworks in London, followed by Jools Holland. It was a great end to the day and we blearily made our way home at 1am.

Happy New Year!

Hector, one of Richard and Michelle's cats.