Flippin heck it's chilly up here, -17 degrees the night before last, a mile or so from us - brrrr. (Above pic is high up on Royd Moor )
Anyhoo, hope you're all keeping safe and toasty.
After Twiglet's 3 snow days off last week, we're really into the exciting pre Christmas build up at his school now.
We went on a lovely trip to a local marina where the children had a visit from Santa, who came up the canal by boat - their faces were a picture. (apparently the lovely chaps who work there - The Safe Anchor Trust) had to get up early to break the ice so the boat could sail). We all had a jolly sing song, the children visited Santa's grotto, had lunch, made badges, did some colouring, received a goody bag and had a terrific time. (The Mums enjoyed it too - magical). Twiglet is most taken with his flashing lights fire engine he received !!!
We have the Christmas Carol concert in our village church tomorrow, I'm going with my lovely in laws as my Mum has hurt her ankle and Mr Twigs has to work :(
Saturday we are visiting Thomasland again, with Twiglet's little cuz. He's excited cos they have a snow machine and guaranteed snow 3 times a day - hmmmmm !!!
Well we finally set off to go sledging last Saturday and went up to our favourite spot.
I thought we'd had more snow than this time last year, but crikey, look at this.
We had to make do with having a good play instead, check out
Twiglet walking on top of the snow drifts. This is the road we usually drive up !!
Made a few snow angels and then home for hot chocolate.
Ace fun.
Sunday saw us keeping cosy and putting up the Christmas tree which I'll show you next time, very pretty and overloaded it is too :)
Righto, off to do my grocery shopping and ironing now.
I LOVE this photo!!
Take care on those slippery pavements and keep safe.
Twiggy x
PS I was lucky enough to win lovely Lynsey at Swirlyarts competition recently, I will blog my lovely goodies soon.
Well after 3 snow days, Twiglet finally returned to school today, although they didn't start until 10am. We're sat here in our PJs all cosy and there is a strong smell of wax as I switched the light on, the bulb blew and the house went completely dark. Twiglet said thank goodness the TV is ok, can we have candles, so that's what we're doing. 
Honestly, he went to school armed with spare socks, wellies you name it, got sent out of school to walk home in school shoes and NO socks and one glove. I had to go back in school with him, apparently no one had noticed or found his socks. His wellies were the only pair left next to the door next to a plastic bag with his spare socks and glove !!! I don't expect his teachers to dress him, but a bit of observation would be nice.
Christmas trees.
And a bit of Christmas stitching.
Righto, off to dish up the cottage pie I made for tea. 
He has a snow day off school, so wrap up warm and come with us on our little walk if you wish.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Well Twiglet thoroughly enjoyed his school disco on Friday. He went as a fireman in the end as he'd ougtrown his Superman outfit!! He was very pleased as he won a prize for his breakdancing skills and was kissed by B a very forward young lady in his class:)
He also got his wish on Friday night as we finally got some snow, however it was just a dusting really, so he's still got his fingers crossed for enough to build a snowman this week!!
We had a very invigorating walk on Saturday, just lovely.
I think the second one looks very retro.
Today my thoughts turned to Christmas gifts and food. The old jam pan came out, we started with a batch of chilli jam. 
Then moved onto a first for me onion marmalade.
It all smelt delicious and unblocked our sinuses again, so medicinal too.
I'd just finished popping it into jars, looked out of the window and it had started snowing and a little robin appeared on the garden table. Of course he'd disappeared by the time we found the camera but it was a lovely pre- Christmas moment.
