Life of a yummy baby ... and now there are 2!!!!!

Until the beginning of this week, I thought we've been experiencing the warmest winter ever. I mean it's already the beginning of February and Lewis has been cycling to work without a scarf, hat or gloves! But then again, he's Welsh and helps if a little bit mad sometimes. We've not had frost and I've not seen a drop of snow on any side of the Malvern Hills.




Morgan and I only wanted to collect some water by the springs and ended up taking a walk, making pictures of a truly gorgeous day!


















Then we had to climb up this hill just to see what's on the other side .... amazing view huh?


See the winter sun on our faces!

... and the gorgeous view from the bay window of our living room.







On Wednesday night we attended this pre-Chinese New Year celebration in Cardiff.

A HongKong Chinese friend Roma invited us over for a 捞 起 & 喝 茶 gathering with the Asian women community based around Cardiff. A bit like the Joy Luck Club or 闲 女 聚 乐 部 so it seems. It was great because in the 4 years I have lived in UK, I hardly get to know any Asian friends! I met 2 Singaporeans, 1 Malaysian, 3 Hongkies on my table and quite a number of other Chinese wives but not sure where they are all from.

For most of the time, we spoke in English but would swop into Cantonese or Mandarin occasionally. Most of them of varying ages, are wives of British counterparts or immigrated to UK for more than 10 or 15 years. Lots of chin-wag, eating, drinking and catching up on the local gossips. I am impressed with how the older women present themselves as a confident, vivacious lot. They had plenty of stories to share and were totally at ease with themselves until someone casually mentioned that 'Food in Singapore is very nice one right?' and immediately broke the ice for me! We almost went on all night about food amongst other things. Anyway it's really nice to see so many different Asian women from different backgrounds coming together and having a good time. I could do this again I think....



8 February 07, Thursday - It was the first day of snow that we had in the year. It started coming down at 1am in the morning. We were so lucky to have driven home from Cardiff last night because I wasn't even able to get the car out from my carpark drive this morning!









Lewis had to take the day off from work and spent all morning shovelling snow off the path.












.... while Morgan was just looking out and ... admiring the snow.
















Country-wide, many schools were closed for the day and the kids in our area went out sledging & toboganning on the hills. We saw this group from the Outdoor Centre trekking down from the hills, past our way ...












There were not quite so many cars on the roads because it was almost impossible to drive where snow had piled up.














Morgan crying at the bus-stop because the bus didn't turn up and so he missed his swimming lesson!




We decided to go for a walk to buy groceries like milk and bread from the village shop, which is only half a mile away. Saw lots of people walking too - from work, to the shops and home.













Fancy meeting Mr Snowman ...















Today, the snow fell continuously. It piled up a few inches higher than yesterday. 今 天 雪 下 的 特 别 大, 还是下 了一整 天呢！














View of the carpark and our garden. Snow was blowing in the wind when I took these pictures. I didn't want to sound dramatic but I couldn't help being inspired ...