I hope everybody had a great time at Christmas. Here we are in our very congested dining-room, we were lucky enough to have the family with us. A goose was cooked but it isn’t on show.

I’m on the left and by that time I was shattered and far too hot, in fact we all look quite miserable I think but a good time was had by all. Both ‘boys’ weren’t feeling all that great, there are so many bugs going about at the moment.

We will probably be moving from this house in a year or two so the photographs are really a sort of family posterity thing because we don’t have many digital photos of the house.

This is the sitting-room which we used to decorate with a massive real christmas tree but this year as it’s so cold we decided not to bother because we probably wouldn’t be in that room much. The fire in the living-room is much warmer.

I just decorated the mantelpiece. This photograph was taken with the flash.

And this quite scary looking photograph was taken without the flash.

So now that Christmas is over we just have Hogmanay to look forward to – and more hours spent in the kitchen!