good weekend

It has been a lovely weekend. We cleaned and DUSTED the house on Saturday ready for friends coming round today.

This was the view from our bedroom window on Saturday morning. This is the same view I usually take photos of at sunrise. As you can see the sun was shining and the sky was blue. We worked very hard on the cleaning and I did some baking.

In the past few years we have had some friends around on a Sunday before Christmas and we have mince pies and mulled wine.

They caught me out this year though as we have not put up our Christmas decorations. We have a lovely real tree standing bare in the corner so I need to get it dressed!

I made some Father Christmas dust for the children. Porridge oats and glitter in a sparkly bag with instructions to sprinkle onto the path outside on Christmas Eve to attract the reindeer and Father Christmas.
It was a lovely relaxing day.

After we had worked so hard yesterday Hubby treated me to a night out last night. We went to Hebden Bridge. The Christmas lights are up (sorry about the blurry photos!) We had fish and chips and a cup of tea.

We ended up here....

and went to see Bright Star. What a beautifully made film. A slow and quiet film with exquisite photography and costumes.