Misshelen's Weblog

My original motivation for starting this blog was to keep family and friends updated (and keep mum sane) as I wander about in whichever random place I find myself in.

To put it simply Misshelen is first and foremost about family and friends.

As I’m not on facebook (I know, I know, I must be the only person in the whole world!) I thought this week’s blog would be a good way to send home some funny pics from my short and sweet last visit…

Much to his father’s disgust Baby Jay – the bottomless pit – steals toast crumbs                         from his daddy’s plate. I think your son is hungry bro!

Looby and Grandma practice their balancing act just in case they ever decide to run away with the circus!

.              Looby the cat…a right little show off (but only when it suits HER!)

Thumbs up for good old fashioned fun cutting snowflakes out of scrap paper which Grandma cleverly made into a placemat!

I have single handedly failed to send Christmas cards this year. I apologise.

However, in my defense…1). I have been living in Africa until a few days ago and 2). I was banking on cards, stamps and a post box in Heathrow..1 of which failed to materialise so it was either postcards from London for everyone or….

a blogged best wishes so here I go…

Wishing you a very merry Christmas! I am very impressed you have managed to have a word with the man upstairs and make it feel very Christmassy for us returning Brits…very festive! Thank you!

I hope this year has been good to you. I have felt incredibly lucky this year and had some truly amazing experiences.

So I raise a glass (of mum’s mulled wine if you want to know!) to a fabulous Christmas and a truly smashing 2010.

See you next year!

p.s and lets face it THIS is what a family Christmas is all about…(and yes that IS the chef still wearing his cooking apron!)

Am back in the UK and shivering! But just a quick post to wish you a very merry Christmas and a fabulous new year!

More stories from the minefields next year but for now I am off on a family ‘expedition’ to the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree (final decision to be made by mother-dear so this could take some time!) swiftly followed mince pies and mulled wine.

Its been 3 weeks since my latest adventure began and now its time for a little ‘rice-respite’ so I’m en route back to England for 4 days!

Admittedly there’s a pretty darn good reason for such a short visit…my wee sis is to be wed!

So after a bit of a monster journey home (bumpy 4×4 road trip, plane, bus, plane, couple of trains and a car ride) I arrived home and straight into wedding-mania!

And so tha mania continued until 8pm saturday morning – when I think we hit the eye of the storm and had a very lovely calm and relaxed bucks fizz brunch (thanks Dad!)…then 11am hit and we heading straight back into mania!

Needless to say the bride looked absolutely stunning (well – she is from T’buckle stock!), the sun shone, the champagne flowed and we danced til dawn. Well – actually, some of the wedding party partied til dawn – those of us with confused body clocks went to bed slightly earlier than dawn!

It was all over far too quickly and before i knew it I was back in terminal 2 of Manchester airport waiting to board my first of 3 flights back to rice heaven.