Catching Up On Our New Years Iris and Bertie Sleepover

Christmas and New Year seem sooooooooooo far away now, although we still seem to be slowly clearing up because, as Darrell says there is no more perfect time for a petite "spring" clean than the start of a new year .......... but what of our New Years Sleepover I hear you ask.......

Let's just say it was pretty wonderful, we started off with a Open all Hours cocktail bar for Iris and Bertie complete with all manner of cocktail paraphernalia, maraschino cherries, lemon slices and ice cubes plus every flavour of Fruit Shoot drink known to man ......

....... with the little ones free to help themselves whenever they fancied so long as they made us the occasional one too now and again.  There was also our now must have pick 'n' mix sweetie table with all of our most favourite sugary type comestibles.

There were also presents, kept back from Christmas Day so they could be enjoyed and played without a little of that impossible excitement ....... to wit one mini arcade pirate coin push machine .......

 ...... and a Play Doh Dentist set .......

....... from which a little too much enthusiastic drilling and mahoooosive fillings ensued for my own personal sensitivities, ........

........ a much considered present from Nigel, as if you need to be ask!

On the last day of 2019 we decided to walk into town to get some much needed fresh air and lunch out ......

......... it was posh fish fingers, chips and peas and sherbet lemonades all round at Evesham's Orto Lounge, followed by a very competitive game of 3D Snakes and Ladders on our return to The Towers.

As soon as it got dark we once more donned our warm coats and boots to go out again for what Iris and Bertie (..... and Nigel) love best, our traditional Midnight walk along the river to the meadow playground, armed with a whole arsenal of torches to look for creatures of a nocturnal type nature ........

........ and a most ample flask of hot chocolate and box of chocolate malted milk biscuits for a "midnight feast" on one of the benches.

It was just toooooooooo magical ........ with one or two fireworks going off in the background to add to the excitement.

....... though I think that any nocturnal creatures that may have been out and about were well shot of said meadow as soon as they caught wind of our approaching presence and shenanigans, what are they like?

We returned to The Towers full of fresh air and not a tiny bit weary to change into PJ's for an evening of Harry Potter and popcorn ......

...... while Darrell laid the table and prepped for our celebratory family New Years Day meal ....... happy, happy days!!!!