Nice way to see out the year with All The Cheeses. Having a night with our good mates but everyone’s a bit knackered and either snoozing or unlikely to make it past midnight.

Waited for the Boxing Day sales to treat myself to a Nespresso coffee machine. If this doesn’t improve work productivity then nothing can!

Working through the capsule selection that came with it and testing out the different coffee options.

Well that was a lovely Christmas Day. Lovely sunny day, walk with doggo and spending the day drinking wine with good friends.

Delicious lamb roast dinner (which Penny also enjoyed, cleaning the meat off the bone)

After that we had a choice of Kiwi favourite Pav but also a delicious yule log!

We also refrained from wasting money on buying each other crap we don’t need.

Been to the local 10 pin bowling club for our works Christmas event and shamefully failed to get out of double figures in either game. Sorry Dad!

Even worse a 4 year old at the next lane scored higher (though he did have the gutter rail up)

The Duchess had an epic memory fail tonight, unable to recall the word “composter” and instead coming up with “gunge box” for it.

So I guess my tumbler has a new name …

… it’s too damn warm.

27 degrees and little breeze today made it very stuffy round the house.

Bloody typical, been cursing the wind and rain all through the Winter and now it’s Summer it’s gone too far the other way!

Typical Brit, never happy.

Something that gets me steamed up worse than my specs on opening the oven door is trying to pick things up while wearing oven gloves. Every time they make me think “surely this isn’t the best solution to this problem?'”

As another birthday treat I’ve bought some Weber BBQ Gloves which, on first test at least, work a treat! Nice grip, goes well past the wrist and fend off the heat well for a quick lift in or out of a hot oven.

Easily pleased eh?! Now to sort out that shitty rotary washing line that keeps smacking me in the head ….

Surprising how many famous people have died this year (so far) – as shown on this impressive montage art by @ChrisTheBarker

Key to people here : https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/1598621837281337344?s=46&t=AMUi-SD-qKbs4m7rGSJP_w

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