Merry Christmas

December is my favourite time of year. I get so excited about seeing my family, friends, giving presents and enjoying a feast of food!
We're watching Holiday Inn {the perfect festive film}whilst finishing off some of the wrapping and drinking mulled cider. Our home is full of home made decorations, our tree is happily twinkling in the corner and glen and I are snuggled up on the sofa.
This is our first christmas spent together and i'm hoping to introduce glen to some of our family traditions.

• opening one present from the tree on christmas eve (we had to make a very reluctant glen do this one)
• eating breakfast in our P J's whilst opening our stocking presents.
• opening presents from the tree before lunch
• festive film watching
• lots of board game playing and taking a brisk walk after lunch.

I hope you all have an amazing christmas.

photos taken from around my house

my mum. our tree with a very snowy street outside. home made apple and cranberry chutney given as gifts. presents all wrapped by me (i'm obsessed with brown paper and string!)

my week

I've been away from my blog this past week, as I've been enjoying time out of the house catching up with friends and family.
It's been snowing here in London. Not as much as i would have liked, but it was still snow. And it made me giddy running around like a little girl catching snowflakes in my mouth!
We had our Christmas Party on Saturday- it was great seeing old friends and catching up on the latest news in our life's. They're all off to Somerset (where i grew up) and I'm a little upset that I won't be there this year spending Christmas with them . But my mum is currently on her way to London, my sister is making a (Nigella's) feast , and it's my gorgeous nephews first Christmas.
I'm so excited about spending time with my family, cooking good food, and well just relaxing.

Glen and I are off to France for New year with our friends. We're staying in a small cottage near the beach, and i am so excited to take a break from the hustle and bustle of London.

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas, spent with the ones you love.

Rain, Ice and Mulled Wine means only one thing...It's Christmas!

We went Ice Skating at Somerset House last night.

We were freezing cold and it didn't stop raining the whole time we were there, but we didn't care one bit, we had so much fun.

To our surprise we didn't fall over, and I was even able to skate for a whole 5 minutes without holding on to the side!

London felt so magical to us last night, the fairy lights, the Christmas tree, little ones and chats with strangers.

We warmed up in Covent Garden and then walked to our favourite (follow the link to see) french bar for a cheese board and red wine. It's not to be missed on a trip to London.

A truly perfect day.

Here is a little Christmas playlist, to get you in the festive mood. I can't stop smiling as i listen to these beautiful songs.

Enjoy

Feeling festive..?

I hope you've all had a great weekend..? This is just a quick post to ask you all to please vote for this photo I took in Uganda for Link Community Development. The charity stand to win $2000 AUSD, so please get in the festive spirit and get voting here.