Sailing

Paul and I have just got back from a great three nights on the boat which was our first sail of the season. Suddenly the weather has warmed up and it felt almost like summer at times - only a little wind and lots of sun but we were well wrapped up! This is the view from the beach near Bembridge on the Isle of Wight yesterday when we were walking back from Seaview, having had a nice lunch with friends in The Fort pub, overlooking the sea.

Half Term

No classes this week and we're hoping to manage a few days sailing at the end of the week, depending on the weather...
Hattie has just come back from a fantastic week in Aviles, Spain, staying with a local family and practising her Spanish. She was even interviewed for the local TV and when asked what food she'd liked, the only food she could think of was 'merluza' (hake) which caused a lot of amusement!

Still snow!

We have had friends staying with us this weekend and we had a lovely snowy walk along the Thames at lunchtime, taking this photo along the way, before going up to Boars Hill to sledge.

Then it started to snow all over again!

Another snow day!

Can't believe that College was closed again today. I tried to cycle to get my haircut but I nearly fell off my bike several times and so had to push it in the end! Another snowy picture taken in the garden yesterday.

Snow Day!

It's Thursday today and it's been snowing during the night and it's still snowing now. College is cancelled and so is Hattie's school so she's gone off to meet friends and muck around in the snow and I've got some unexpected time to sort out stuff at home and take some photos.

This is what it looked like from our sitting room window this morning before the sun came up!

Burns Supper

On Saturday night we went to a Burns Supper organised by our friend Magnus. This year it was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a famous Scottish poet, who wrote the words to 'Auld Lang Syne'. My husband did the address to the haggis - a sort of toast - before we ate some with traditional mashed potato and neeps (swede). Delicious!