For Christmas we had a Snowy Mountain containing chestnut purée and lots of chocolate:

And now a very tasty indeed Orange and Poppy seed cake with orange glaze:

Sledges are now a rare item. Fortunately I found a large plastic tray big enough to hold both our Daughters in the shed. A quick attack with the drill and some rope from the car and we had ourselves a sledge!

I offered to pull Chloe but she declined due to hip worries however she did offer to pull me (very) briefly.

Once again 59 of you were typing in the Google search box and not the address bar. Tch.

I owe thanks to the odd porn phenomenon that is the dancing bear for sending lots of people my way this year. I fear they may have been disappointed when they got here though.

My favourite other random searches:

‘thirty girls and a cup’ dancing bear – I don’t want to know….
2 worded names for snow – cold stuff? ice rain?
2nd birthday wording terrible
8 barrelled pom-poms – sounds like a particularly effeminate gun
assyst ooh – ooh?
bbc entertainment porno – that’s what my licence fee goes towards‽ Quick, to the Daily Mail!
bear armpits
dancing sausages – like this?

ferrero rocher wedding video – that would be spoiling us.
fucking hp enterprise services – fight the power! Or something.
how to do the makka pakka dance
indeed,a very tasty bear
who are the spooky people with no brain? – I want to know as well

Read more books – FAIL
Take more photos – Yes, although I took far less in the latter half of the year.
Listen more – Mixed results.
Cook more – I have cooked more but there’s much room for improvement.
Less aimless internet browsing – Less but still too much.

Next year’s? TBC

Somewhat cooler than last year so most of them stayed intact this time.

Moved out of my parents’ house.
Lived with housemates.
Lived with a partner.
Bought a house with my partner.
Become a Dad twice.
Got married.
Learned to drive.
Bought my first car.
Bought my first brand new car.
Worked for the DVLA, Norwich Union, Aviva, EDS and HP.
Owned a Canon IXUS 500, a Canon Powershot S80 and Nikon D80
Owned three PowerBooks and one MacBook Pro.
Had Scarlet Fever.
Skydived.

If I can think of anything noteworthy I’ll update this post!