Another New Year - 2010 begins

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Happy New Year to you all.

Sunday evening again, so time to write the blog, the first of 2010, though you probably realised that.

We have not had wall-to-wall holiday this week as Nicky was working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and Claire worked Monday and was due in on Friday and Saturday but wasn't well enough. However, it has been a fairly quiet week.

Claire and I (along with a number of Claire's friends) went to the cinema to see "Sherlock Holmes" on Wednesday which we enjoyed, and Nicky and I have been to see "The Lovely Bones" today, which was OK.

On Thursday Claire went to Crystal Mountain with Ryan, which is not really a theme park and is only small. I went to Devonport to return a book to Letty, had a good chat, picked over 10lbs of plumbs from her tree, and spent the Hanlon's wine vouchers on the way back (BTW Hanlons if you are reading this: Caro's have won Metro magazine's best wine shop again this year, for the sixth year in a row).

As Thursday was also New Year's Eve, Nicky and Claire went to bed around their usual times, and I was in bed by the time the year turned, but only because the film I was watching finished an hour later than I thought.

We have had chance this week to consume some of our wine stock, and do our Loughborough map and Washington panorama jigsaws. Ros came over for Scrabble yesterday, and Ryan has been over for West Wing this afternoon.

We have had some great weather for the past few days, warm and sunny, and not a hint of snow.

Bye for now,

Rick

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