Christmas in St. Albans

After a really good Soup Run on Saturday night we headed up to St. Albans. We stopped off at Jim's on the way up and had a very pleasant hour with Jim. We promised to dig out the photo of Burt with his beer from a couple of years ago.



Then it was on to Hazel and Rob. We walked up the road at midnight for Mass and had a lovely Christmas day with, I'm glad to say, lots of presents. Even Tanner got one. I had a long fight with Hazel's oven that really didn't want to cook the turkey but we got there in the end. Christmas afternoon was spent with a port and brandy while Hazel & Gail cleared up the amazing amount of mess I created in the kitchen. Then Dr Who, The Vicar of Dibley & something by Dickens finished the day.




Boxing Day saw us back to Bristol and the following day back to work.

Christmas in Kerry - At Home

As always when we visit it more about family than anything else and this time we got to meet Isobel for the first time.

On the Sunday we had a full Christmas dinner, which I didn't have to cook. Apart from the final burning of the Christmas pudding.

Christmas in Kerry - Day Trips

We had a wonderfull first Christmas in Ireland with Mum & Dad. Hazel came with us and saw almost every type of weather Kerry can throw at you. Below is a small video of us at Torc.


Inch was cold and bright, almost as cold as the Christmas morning 5 years ago when I proposed.


Our drive continued out round Dingle before heading home. However the day we did the lakes the weather was incredable, cold and calm, mist and cloud, lakes like mirrors.

From Ladies View you could even see the lakes.






Stopping at Mulls Gap we could see right through the Gap of Dunloe, and I guess we were looking straight back towards Mum & Dads house in Firies.


We went for a wander round Kinmare wear Hazel bourt a bear called Rupert that Dad completly failed to photograph sticking out of the top of Hazel's bag. However when we went down to the peir we found the comical situation of a dog stalking swans in the water.

By the time we started to head home the mist had lifted and you could see the lakes.


Once back down at water lever the lakes were like glass, stunningly beautiful (the lake not me).

Graduating From Wesley College

We had a wonderful day at Wesley collecting our certificates. Eil & Bob came down and Mum came over from Ireland. Dad unfortunately couldn’t make it and was missed. Rene, Chris, Martyn and Alan & Chris also joined us.

It started with collecting gowns and mortarboards, then photos. An hour of chatting followed then we had a lovely dinner (Chris eventually got hers). The ceremony in the afternoon was wonderful and the guest speaker was Bishop Declan.

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