Christmas was a civilised affair with plenty of food, drink, pressies and excellent company, and we managed to keep going until nearly 2am. The most important point I should mention here is that mother does the best brandy butter on the planet. Seriously.
I caught up on some films I've failed to watch previously, over the holiday period. Most notably St Trinians with the wonderful Rupert Everett - Camilla looks like a lady of my acquaintance, but I daren't tell her! - who gets to camp it up. Even the kids are mostly not annoying and even pretty good - I thought it a good little film.
Captain America is good with clever CGI, and Chris Evans is extremely nice to look at - it falls short of brilliant only because the action in the second half takes up too much time - good for a potty break and making a cup of tea without having to hit pause.
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| Profiteroles can be gooey as well as scrummy. |
Thor has the most amazing CGI for Asgard, and is worth watching in HD for that alone. The rest of it somehow doesn't quite work, as the characters don't really engage with the viewer, which given the very talented credits both behind, as well as in front of the screen, is surprising.
New year's was also a civilised affair with each person contributing a course for dinner (and washing up after that course!), lots of wine and glammimg up in posh frocks and heels.
Scarily, the 2012 diary seems to be already heavily booked, with work events, racing fixtures, girlie weekends, visits to the Harry Potter attraction and canal holidays scheduled.
The trains on the first working day of the year were bad both ways, but can't hold it against southeastern as it was all due to trees and recycling boxes being blown over the lines by that howling gale. Let's hope it's not a sign of things to come.
The first big event of the year is the anticipated arrival of number one nephew later this month and excitement abounds. Watch this space.
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