Middle Aged

Is this the start of middle age? I have got a personal trimmer as a Christmas present. It may be true that I have a slight nasal and ear hair growth problem but I can still handle it by pulling them out individually.

By the way how do you pronounce the name of the brand Tchibo? Is it Ch-eye-bow, Chee-bow or Ch-i-bo or something else?

A nice cup of coffee.

Our youngest has discovered the joy of warm beverages.

Christmas Day

Christmas day started with a candlelit breakfast:

Our youngest liked his Christmas lunch:

And our eldest took a self portrait with her new camera (which we are grateful for after the loss of ours):

A present for a special needs chef.

Black Christmas

It looks like we will have to have imaginary photo's on the blog for a while as a pick-pocketer got our camera.

Christmas Tree

We have put up our Christmas tree. We have got a 'real' one from the greengrocer around the corner this year after 3 years of having a Barbie (tm) pink one. The Barbie one was very nice but this one is much nicer. Though I hope it's still got some needles on by christmas day...

ASOK - Reincarnated but as part snickers.

Asok has been brought back to life but his DNA was mixed with "candy". Wonder what the HEFA make of that?

ASOK is Dead.

Poor old ASOK is dead.

We will miss him. I always liked him. Perhaps because I have some of the same naive idealism that he had. He may be resurrected - but then that would spoil the poignancy of his death in a kind of American vs. Not American style film ending.

New Bed

We have just got rid of the mattress we got when we were married. It had reached the end of it's useful life, with several large holes and odd pinging sounds when moved. It was also exceedingly uncomfortable. We are currently sleeping on our spare bed which if far more comfortable and lovely. We have also splashed out on new duvet's - mine is full of lovely fluffy feathers and is like sleeping under a warm cloud. Here's to many more comfortable nights.