I love it when people send me photos of my stockings up!
These, in the USA, look brill!
I didn't make many this year (nearly everyone has one now) but I DID make one for a toy dog!!
Beacon is a company mascot.
Milly, a real dog, already had a stocking.
Her puppy sister will be needing one next Christmas.
This Christmas Nem bought some table leggers with feet!
We had a new baby elephant born at Chester Zoo, she is the cutest little thing, her name is Indira.
We had no intention of having Pain au Raisins for breakfast on Christmas morning, but #TeamHolliBelly were having them and they snapchatted the evidence and they looked so tasty it sent me scuttling out to the freezer in the shed for ours.
Total Waitrose Bargain Delights
This was a great pressie!
But do I have to put it away now till next December?
Happy Christmas Mr WoollyCow!
It was a very pleasant after dinner stroll and the woolly cows didn't seem too alarmed by our headwear.
As Team HolliBelly were in Darlo, and Cub and Emily were in Hawaii, (HAWAII??) yes Hawaii, it was just the four of us for lunch and it was lovely,
but Andy's cake didn't last long oops.
It didn't actually last till the 28th.
WAY too delicious.
On Boxing Day, Team Hennie went to Rich'n'Mel's so Husb and I went to Theatre Colwyn to see a Panto, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.
"Excited" wasn't the word.
There was such major anticipation for the forthcoming "He's behind you!" "Oh no he isn't" "Oh yes he is" that the big kid in me raced down the the stage to buy a flashing glow star as soon as we arrived. What a lovely theatre. Perfect size, great atmosphere, lovely staff, delightful.
We loved it.
But are we not allowed to frighten children any more? Can't we have a scary giant who BOOMS out FEE FI FO FUM instead of singing it smiling? The wicked witch wasn't scary either, she just had just had curly black hair.
Stuart Loughland was superb as Dame Tilly Trot. Her endless supply of colourful outfits reminded me of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, she totally stole the show.
There was a bit of magic too-we are still wondering how they did it-Fairy Aubergine got chopped in half!! And then the flourescent puppets danced to Queen and Star Wars which was fabulous.
All in all it was very good and the children loved it which is the main thing.
Dec 27th we remembered Geoffers and hugged Bet-with-Cheeks-like-Clouds at the Millpool in Coventry.
Meanwhile the Cubster was planking in Hawaii.
Just look at that sand! I actually looked at the sand before the plank :)
By 30th Dec my nest was filling up as Team Hollibelly arrived from the North East.
Badders and Speedminton at Christleton were fun even with my wonky shoulder.
Badders was followed by SueK's wonderful cake...
we DO love our Christmas cake...
and ROGUE ONE at the Odeon.
NEW YEARS EVE
Nixen and Bells went to Old Trafford to watch the Boro JUST let go of their ONE NIL lead in the 85th and 87th minutes (cruel, cruel,cruel) so we pantod for the second time in a week at the Royal Court in Liverpool which was
starring Keddy from Handbags of Harmony.
The baddy really WAS a baddy in this!
He swore at us and everything.
We are still talking about it now.
We could have gone again the following night it was that good.
The plot was a crazy jumble of events starting with Terry overdosing on herbal teas and hallucinating that he was on an aeroplane full of characters resembling The Wizard of Oz, including a terrifyingly merry lady on her way to a hen party, crazy cabin crew and my friend's friend from Handbags, the pilot. Anyway Liverpool was under attack from a crazy dictator who had been let down by the city in his youth and the gang all tried to save Liverpool from destruction with the help of ED who had already sunk to his neck in quicksand.
Or something like that!!
It was brilliant.
Singapore celebrated 2017 several hours before us so Suz gets the First Plank of the Year !!
FANTASTIC!
But we weren't into 2017 yet.
We needed tea before Big Ben chimed its famous 12 dongs so
took the spare crackers up to the Piper.
where I had the best present of the night - The Cubster facetiming. Just look at that smile.
I showed it to everyone in the pub.
Great pressie from Cheryl, I love her heart shaped trunk!.
Cub then came outside with us.
We carried him over the threshold with our coal for warmth, eyedrops for good eyesight, paracetamol for health, food, Mr Happy, books and fizz,
but it was so dark, he probably couldn't see a thing. Ooops.
First task of 2017 was to print him off!
We now look at a larger than lifesize photo of him.
Wotahoot.
Beaut flowers from Bells
All the best to everyone for 2017.
Let's hope it is full of happy things and tea.
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