Winterreise

Danielle and I walked by the Pocklington Canal from Hagg Bridge. First time I have been in winter for a good while. A beautiful light, and plenty of bird activity from the marshes around the nearby river Derwent. If you look in the sky you can see flocks of lapwings and unidentified flying ducks. 

TNBC

 The tradition of me reading The Night Before Christmas to Rowan has, pleasingly, continued. 

Post Christmas

 The busy Christmas carried on. Whisky evening with our Quaker friends who like a tipple. Meeting Rowan's boyfriend Jamie for the first time (he came up to stay a couple of days). Playing Ticket to Ride, our now traditional game at John and Heather's. Then a very very quiet New Year Eve compounded by York-wide internet failure. Now girding ourselves for the Eberhardt visit (niece Sarah, her husband Markus and four young children). 

Jamie meet the Palmours