Holidays, a tent, a wedding and lots of snow

So, what have we been up to since June?  Not updating this blog for starters!

Summer holiday was a very hot two weeks in Crete.  It started in the usual way - disagreement about whether the room we were allocated was what we had booked.  After we left Anne to it, it was sorted out.  As well as the five of us, we had our niece Katie with us.  Katie and Hannah had a room to themselves - and had a ball.

This year was the year of our new tent.  We used it three times - a weekend in Perth with our Edinburgh friends, another weekend near Graham in Eccleston, and a few days during the October week near Bamburgh.  Hannah hasn't been too impressed - she'd prefer a palace on wheels - but everybody else thinks it's great.  One downside was the field that was a bit of a mudbath near Eccleston.

Our niece Louise tied the knot with Andy, to become the new Mr & Mrs Houlis.  Anne made the trip to Cyprus (one of her many holidays this year).  And then we all travelled to Newcastle for the UK reception.

And the year ended with the 2010 Big Freeze throughout almost the whole of December.  Martin spent many happy hours clearing away snow from the drive.  And we're now waiting for the next snowdump in January.