Eating, drinking and a few other things

Basically we have been lazing around doing nothing but drink and eat too much, as is traditional for the Christmas period. We went skiing on Christmas Day, it was windy and sleeting, but we were glad we got out and did some token amount of excersize. We had ham on Christmas Eve and duck on Christmas Day. Both very good (if I say so myself!)

We have spent some time making stock and soup with left overs, and we have managed to do a few useful things like make some more cheddar and beer. For a bit more excersize we picked up the wood piles from the drive. They were there because at the end of the summer Doug spent some time with an exciting new toy chopping down all the branches overhanging the driveway and stacked the resulting logs in neat piles along the drive.

Since then everytime we drive up or down, we say 'we must get round to picking those up'. We finally did and now it is all neatly stacked with the other wood maturing for a year or two.

We also tidied up some old tires and concrete blocks that have been annoying us littering the place up. There are a LOT of tires around, they are useful for things like weighing down the roof on woodpiles - the previous owner used them to stand his beehives on.