The last post.

This Christmas was spent with M's family in Scotland which was lovely. Christmas, I believe should be spent with family and we have stuck to this every year. The trek up only took 7.5 hours with an hours stop at our favourite Westmoreland Services. They have an amazing food shop there! 
Christmas was lovely but we didn't get our white Christmas like last time, instead it was wet and windy. M's Dad was quite poorly and we were very concerned, he's 80 now and went downhill very quickly but he got up on Christmas Day to be with us all. We had to leave for the home on 27th and he seemed to be a little better. 
The trek home took us a whopping 11 hours. We crawled all the way from Liverpool to just before the Toll road at Birmingham for no apparent reason! 
By the end we were all a bit tired and grumpy except Moo who slept the whole time. She too had had a funny turn at Grans, as too many walks seemed to be causing her to have laboured breathing and panting while resting. She has a heart murmur but not bad enough to need anything for it. Since her lazy car journey she seems to be fine! 


 Some things while we crawled along the M6: 


We lost count of how many people were on the phone. 
You could tell those who were texting but pretending not to. 
Cars boots very full. 
An old fiesta car totally full of small logs. 
A huge ginger cat sitting on the back shelf of a car. 
Spotting a car with The Isle of Man number plate - don't know why we thought it funny but we just did! 
Listening to Gangsa Granny wrote and read by David Walliams - hilariously funny and great light entertainment. 
Munching on chocolate with sea salt - it shouldn't work but it very much does!
Catching up with the same people - over and over!

Ted posing for next years calendar!

So this will be my 250th blog post and the last for 2011! 

To celebrate there shall be a giveaway but not until next year... 

Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Gill

xxx