{Christmas 2015}

Did you have a merry Christmas? Mine was fantastic! We were at my Dad's cousins in Essex and it was filled with such merriment and joy! Highlights included fantastic meals, picking up the turkey from the local farm, an all boys carol service and midnight mass in the medieval cathedral, a Boxing Day Meet in Matching Green, and a traditional panto! 

The pictures really say it all!

{me & my Dad walking on the dock at Maldon, Essex}

{cousins!}

{Merry Christmas!}

{cracker heads!}

{Boxing Day Meet}

{typical onlookers}

{pouring sherries for the riders!}

{cheers!}

{my parents & me}

{Choo pouring our mulled ginger wine!}

{the hounds}

{onlookers}

{off they go!}

{bugle call!}

{side saddle!}

{oldest wooden church in the world--Greensted}

{very tiny door!}

Happy New Year! See you in 2016!!
xo
L

{First Christmas Party in Chota House}

Over the weekend I hosted my first Christmas party in the new house. It was fun to get the house decorated and amazing to see how much has been done on it since I moved in August (for early renovation pictures click here)
Below are a few pictures, and there will be more to come on renovations in the new year!

{starting the fire}

{the mantelpiece all decorated}

{finally painted stairs: remember it used to look like this!}

{crackers are opened!}

Happy Christmas!
x
L