Thursday, 08 January 2026

Happy New Year! 2025 ended in Somerset (with a glorious winter day, trees heavy with hoar frost) and 2026 started in Somerset (a party at the Cozy Club, where we barely made past midnight and missed the new year's complimentary champagne).

Next morning we drove to the sea in Weston super Mare. The tide was low and the wind was glacial, so we sheltered at a very nice café and I had cheesy fries + soda to soothe a mild hangover. Then we went back to mother in law to cook and serve fish stew. Next morning we finally got to visit Vicar's close in Wells, which is apparently europe's oldest residential street with the original buildings still intact. It was really lovely and I want to go back with my camera. This was followed by a somewhat hungry drive home, since we couldn't find anywhere to eat.

And this was the end and the beginning of my year! Here's to a beautiful 2026, and all I ask for is good health and solvency to me and all my loved ones - and you and yours, too.

(I have archived all the previous entries of this blog and will link to them very soon).