Unlike the last two years when we spent NYE on the beach in Australia, 2009 saw us spending it with friends in Guernsey.
Fi and I spent the night at Katie and Blake’s “new” house along with Tammy, Dickon, Kath and three other people I hadn’t met before – they were all pleasant enough. We arrived for drinks and nibbles at 19:30 and the chat was good. We sat down to a green Thai chicken curry which was nice before playing some boardgames and counting down to the New Year. Woke up this morning not feeling too bad although poor Blake either had too much to drink or has picked up some nasty gastroenteritis (I’m hoping it’s the former!).
Fi and I walked back along the coast from Perelle, where the party was, back to Fi’s in Vazon and it was extremely refreshing (read: bloody cold and windy). We must have looked pretty weird since I was pulling a hand luggage case behind me and Fi was carrying a pillow…
We visited Dat & Papa with Bill and Gerardine and had a lovely beef stew for lunch. We caught the 18:10 flight back to Gatwick and made good time getting back to Bristol, arriving here at around 22:30 last night. My poor car isn’t quite right though. I started it to move it out of the driveway and sprayed the windshield with de-icer, only it didn’t work. Weird, I thought – so I got in the car only to find that the ice was on the inside of the glass! I really don’t know how to stop all the condensation inside the car – perhaps it’s time to take it to a Mazda garage and ask them to take a look at it…