The 2nd Wedding Reception.

My nephew Christopher and his wife Claire were married on the 28th November in the Royal Navy Chapel Portsmouth. All his navy friends his mum dad and sister and babies went to it. Claire's family coming from down south also went she's a Dorset girl.

It takes some doing getting us Yorkshire folk out of Yorkshire so his mum and dad put a do on for friends and family from up here on the 27th December, hence the 2nd reception and a good do it was.  

Christmas day 2015.

It's years since it rained on Christmas day, almost never snows.

Steven and Stuarts presents, looks extravagant but really it is two supermarket shops all wrapped up to look nice. Una starts looking for bargains in September then spends hours wrapping them up for Christmas.

My pile.

Una's pile.

I have never understood why women like Christmas, they do all the shopping all the cooking and still find time to laugh.

 Our Steven just said something that cracked her up.

A first for me.

The Camellia in our garden has a bloom on it Una spotted it this morning, usual flowering time is the end of March beginning of April definitely not December.

If this is global warming bring it on.

What happened to November?

The morning after Halloween.

Doncaster Frenchgate have got their Christmas Trimmings up.

Bonfire night 5th November which just happens to be my dads birthday he would have been 106 today.

Another pavement to drop and a drive to lay, this time I am watching someone else do it my shoulders still ache from doing the last one! 

The day after remembrance day we were in Rotherham Minster saying goodbye to Jack Platts
a man I had worked alongside for many years. 

15th A visitor from York my nephew Martin and wife Sarah and baby Alicia. 

16th Barnsley demolition of the old council officers started today.

21st First snow this winter which soon thawed out then froze killing all my Dahlias off.

First time this winter that the windscreen has frozen over.

26th Nov Went up to the allotment to say goodbye for the winter. I think I have finished with it for good.