Afternoon Tea!

Yesterday was my birthday. A bit too close to Christmas if you ask me. After all the chaos and excitement of Christmas it seems to be a day that a lot of people forget about. Thankfully my family don't forget and I was given a special treat of being taken out for afternoon tea by DD who insisted on driving. She did really well considering she hasn't had a full licence for a month yet, particularly as the place we went to is a few miles off the main road down some fairly narrow country roads in places. 

But this is what we had .....

A fabulous Afternoon Tea Picnic Table! It was all delicious. And because I wasn't driving I was able have a glass of prosecco. Lovely! I had some lovely presents too - a beautiful bead for my Chamilia bracelet off DH ....

....it might not show up very well, but the bottom bead has an otter on it and it's lovely, and a very nice Space pen - a couple of books off DD and a cute Minions phone case - and an afternoon tea voucher off my mum (another afternoon tea to plan!), amongst other things. 

DH cooked the meal at night, so I had quite a lazy day really. 

Then today it was time to get the walking clothes out for our first walk of the new year. It was a beautiful day, but very, very cold at times. We headed over to just outside Abbey Village and walked up to Great Hill. 

There was quite a bit of ice around along with quite a bit of mud .....

As you can see, there was lots of blue sky today. 

We even managed to find four geocaches today! What a start to the year. 

And then back to the van via the woods .....

....and just time to have a quick cup of tea and piece of stollen before heading home.