Day Fifteen: The First of the Mince Pies

Picture One: A bit blurry, but I love this picture of the three wanderers about to go for a walk!

Picture Two: Dad was very pleased with this "fire sculpture"!

Picture Three:

Picture Four: One man and his dog (woof woof).

Picture Five: Orlando loves Kendal Bear. Maybe even more than he loves Kendal Cat!

Picture Six: Orlando giving sloppy kisses.

Picture Seven: The first mince pies! First of all, they looked like this...

Picture Eight: ...then this...

Picture Nine: ...and finally this!

Picture Ten: It's rare to get a decent selfie with Orlando, so this needs celebrating!

Picture Eleven: The first Christmas Rummy! It's very late, but better late than never!

Picture Twelve: We found the snowman! He had been put away during the move and it took us days to work out where he was!

Picture Thirteen: Games Night is always a wonderful way to spend an evening.

Picture Fourteen: Back in time! Here's a photo of an intrepid adventurer on the morning walk.

Picture Fifteen: This low sun is a classic winter sight in Caithness. And this is the road running alongside our house!

Day Twelve: Decorating Weekend Part Deux

Picture One: We decided to get a tiny tree for the birdcage! Hopefully a picture will follow tomorrow when we actually have it in situ!

Picture Two: Orlando loves his windfarm walks! Long shadows followed us all the way today, along with watery winter sunlight. Very Christmassy!

Picture Three: Clem and I loved the walk too - and here we are with the house between us! You can't see it well, but the trees you can see are our wild wood.

Picture Four: The view from the wind turbine in the woods. This one is a bit spooky and the way the wind turbines rise up out of the trees makes me think of mythical winged beasts!

Picture Five: Home now - and chance to enjoy a cup of tea and a chocolate in front of the Christmas tree!

Picture Six: The evergreen garlands have started arriving - courtesy of Clemency - so Ginny and I were in charge of putting them up.

Picture Seven: I had to climb quite high to put this display up on the top of the French dresser, but I'm pleased I did because it looks amazing!

Picture Eight: Clemency is looking unreasonably glamourous on this picture! I thought her hairstyle looked a bit Edwardian - although the snowman earrings maybe not quite so much!!

Picture Nine: This year's Decorating Weekend also took the form of some serious removal stuff! We wanted to get the conservatory looking better, and I think we're doing ok with that. More pictures to follow!

Picture Ten: My poor class aren't able to come into school tomorrow so I have asked them to send in pictures of themsleves with their Christmas trees or decorations. Ginny took this photo of me with the Christmas tree to start the ball rolling!

Picture Eleven: The hall is looking very full of greenery now - looking absolutely stunning! Please excuse the boxes - they are the rest of the Christmas decorations!

Picture Twelve: Another view of the hall - doesn't it look festive?!