December

I'm writing December's Blog even though the month has just started. We collected our friends from their cruise and today we drove them up to Tampa to catch their plane back to UK. Over the last few days the weather here has turned pretty cold (although as I write this I keep thinking of the freezing conditions back home), so it was quite appropriate to go to the theatre and see "White Christmas"...I even saw a woman in a fur coat...in Florida!!!!!

We had a Christmas get together with friends and neighbours which focused around Christmas cake and mulled wine. I found out too late about the joke over here about fruit cake. Only your worse enemy would give you a fruit cake at Christmas and then if you couldn't give it away to someone else, you'd use it as a doorstop! Having learned all this I still insisted they try it along with the mulled wine...(more shock and horror) and it went down much better than expected. Lauraine made some yummy versions of sausage rolls and there were plenty of nibbles and I think a good time was had by all.

We've still got 2 weeks left in Florida before flying home for Christmas. No doubt we'll find lots of jobs to do but hopefully there'll also be time to relax and catch up with friends over here.

Here's hoping you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year.