Merry Winter Festival!

Thursday, 27 December 2012 by akatsukira

smile!, a photo by framboise on Flickr. Fin is happy when he has a piece of gingerbread in hand. Aren’t we all?

2012 Winter Festival Tree

Thursday, 13 December 2012 by akatsukira

2012 tree, a photo by framboise on Flickr. Via Flickr: Our cardboard tree for christmas / winter festival 2012. Cut in one night, assembled on another. Cardboard boxes salvaged from the hospital’s IT dept, who were obviously upgrading the entire department, judging by the boxes they were throwing out. Festive coloured binder clips from Staples. […]

Christmas Street Advent Calendar

Wednesday, 5 December 2012 by akatsukira

Christmas Street, a photo by framboise on Flickr. Via Flickr: Our advent calendar this year comes courtesy of Mr Printables. The boxes are pretty small, and just the right size for a few chocolate coins. The tall ones are perfect for mini kitkats and other leftover sweets (aka candy) from Halloween.

Happy 2012!

Monday, 2 January 2012 by akatsukira

2012, originally uploaded by framboise. We had a busy start to 2012 with family and friends, which is just how we like it! So we’ve started the year exhausted, but in a good way. Both P and I gave up on making New Year’s resolutions many moons ago. But if we still made any, our […]

Happy New Year, Kirin!

Sunday, 1 January 2012 by akatsukira

I’d like to start the year by correcting an omission in last night’s review of our 2011. Our darling dog Kirin, patiently waiting to be walked this morning, is still very much loved despite my forgetting to post any photos of her! So to make up for Kirin, here’s one just for her (photos all […]

2011 was a busy year!

Saturday, 31 December 2011 by akatsukira

The year started with P helping his dad in Scotland, and D in LaLaLand plodding away at work. P’s return to LaLaLand was well-timed for the looong wait we had for the arrival of the latest love of our lives, Finlaggan, named, incidentally, not for the whisky, but for the Loch on Islay* in Scotland. […]