On New Years Eve clair came round to where we are staying in Highgate and painted my nails for me including putting on nial gems which took a while and for me has resulted in self control in trying not to pick at them!
We then headed out to Burgess Hill for a geology party (well a party hosted by geologists). Sarah and Simon where in disgrace as they went and got marraide with out telling me! In fact scarily I realised I hadn't seen any of them since Flos wedding just before the birth 🙁
It was great catching up and their tree looked fab 🙂
Midnight came with a pop by which time me and clair where horse from having sung along to about three cds worth of power ballards 
As you have probably noticed Neil sprouted some facial hair during the night! He then proceeded to dance badly 🙂
Sarah and Simon had made mulled wine with chillies in! I'd not come across this concept before - the verticts ranged from wow! To arg my mouth and throat are blistering - I was a chicken and avoided it.
Here are some general picks of party randomness 🙂
Alaric decided to a) design chocolate bars and draw pianos becuase Jules Holland was excited on TV with a piano and to general amusement he decided to do impressions of Wallace and Gromite for which he has the perfect teeth!
Some time around 3 am we decided that it was time for cups of tea having all stuffed our faces with warm minni jam filled doughnuts, chocolate brownies (made by one of the Clairs), out cookies (made by one of the Sarahs) and other sundry yummyness! Did I mention that most people at this party where called Clair (sorry probably different spellings I know!) or Sarah! this can only mean one thing! - Clearly they are the best two names in the whole universe 😉
Coming soon to a blog near you - What else we did over Christmas - as some of you may have noticed the blog was actually broken there for a while hence I am only writing the posts now. It felt disheartening to write the posts when I knew people couldnt get at them to read :/
Again Happy New Year 🙂
Jeany-bow was at a family party creating havoc with two contemperies the three of whom where dressed in identical little fairy outfits! I'm hoping someone took pictures for me 🙂
I'd always been vaguely aware that Phil Gyford, an interesting fellow I had the pleasure of meeting through my time with UpMyStreet.com nearly a decade ago, ran a web site that told you what the famous diarist Samuel Pepys was doing three hundred and forty three years ago today.
However, it wasn't until I saw his blog posting about it today that I realised just how much work he's put into it.
WOW.
Well worth a visit, even if you're not into history...
It is the shiny new beginning of 2008 and we are hoping (desperatly) that it is going to be a bit better than 2007 and that we will soon be back in our own home with a shiny new kitchen and nice effective flood defenses etc...
For 2008 i am hoping to loose the last 2 stone of the pregnancy weight (I doubled in weight actually doubled during the pregnancy which wasnt good), we have budgeted in gym membership for me as I need to up my aerobic excersise. your probably all wondering why I dont just do some gardening or somehting but my joints etc... are unstable and I have to be very careful - loading the joints is bad so gentle swims are good digging wholes bad. I will also be starting physio therapy again so that I have some direction inwhat excersises are good for me and which ones will cripple me.
I also hope to actually star a hobby I've been dreaming off and trying half heartedly to do for a few years - I've been interested in it every since my dad carried me into my nans garden when I was a toddler to show me a lunar eclipse. During my GSCE's there was Hale Bop which had me late in to physics as I'd gone round my uncles to look through his telescope the night before.
I've also been reading Astronomy Now off and on since I was working at the museum on meteorites - I cant right now get back to those pieces of sky rock so I will be attempting to consol myself with star gazing. Our binoculars where distroyed in the flood unfortunatly and I dont have the money to buy any equipement at the moment but my bro has lent me his ickle telescope which I am looking forward to actually using. 2008 is going to be a year of astronomy for me 🙂
I shall also be consolidating my webstuff into a proper business of its own. I will have servers and we have nominet registration and as purple cloud is no longer James I can quite happily become a comercial ISP without competing with my friend. We will be doing hosting and domain registration I will also be building websites and setting up blogs, mailing lists and forums for people. I've had a few customers so far so am confident that if I actually advertise and stuff there should be a nice organic growth.
You may have noticed that since the flood the other blogs - Salaric and wigglypets have been a bit neglected - I hope to remedy this asap. So 2008 is also going to be the year of the pooter for Sarah.
Who knows I might even get that noval typed up and published 🙂
Here's hoping every body had a great night last night and an even better year to come!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from the family Snell-Pym 🙂
Alaric, Sarah | sarah | 
Thu 3rd Jan 2008 9:22 am | 
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