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We settled back in after our New Year travels.

I had a logo designed and got new business cards. ^_^

It snowed.

Because fruit cake should come by the kilo.

They finally did the outstanding snagging. It snowed some more.

I must have missed my plants - this was an impulse buy at Ikea.

Tried out an amazing Thai place, and these are their pumpkin pies!

A giant slipper full of slippers, at Aldi.

Makes sense.

Easter rolls around again. Mind you, this photo was taken in the middle of February.

More snow.

More Kitty.

A guy comes to the door every two weeks selling farm-fresh eggs. That's one on the left. On the right, a "large" egg from the supermarket.

In case you didn't realise there's only a month until Easter, or needed to spike your blood sugar.

Finally, a non-calorific Lindt bunny!

Or you could go for the 1 kg chocolate version.

Very cute idea from Tchibo - bunny ear biscuits for your mug.

Christmas crackers

Some photos from Christmas 2014/New Year 2015. I got some great photos of mad people (and horses) running into the sea on Christmas Day, I'll try to get them into an album at some point.

A little something from the guy who gave us the mortgage.

Nice to see it's not all Hello Kitty.

We finally built the cupboards in the bedroom, which meant I could reappropriate this little clothes rail for my kimono collection. ^__^

Spotted in the Asian food shop across the road from the Jervis Centre in Dublin.

Gingerbread Death Star!

Um, normally I'm willing to give new skin products a try, but I might pass.

Walking along some wild and windy beaches near Bournemouth.

In case "groyne" ever comes up on a pub quiz.

"Don't be a trolley wally" - seen at Paddington.

Very, very dubious about that.

Just when you thought you'd seen it all, Hello Kitty x Barbour.

We went to Necco! Yuzu tea and green tea parfait for me, green tea millefeuille with green tea macaroon on top for Bill.

More great food out for the night with friends - pumpkin and mozzarella with lentils.

And an amazing salt caramel chocolate.

And to top it all off the next morning, home-made foccacia. 

Hard frost back in Zurich. The fields were mostly covered in snow until the end of February.

A farewell to Spain

Oh dear. It's been a while.

Cast your mind back to the beginning of last December, and here are the rest of the photos from Spain.

We stopped off at a churros place on our last full morning. It was always heaving, so I assume it was good, but I have to admit I like the idea of churros more than the actual thing.

We had planned to go to a bird of prey centre, but it was on the top of a very steep hill/small mountain and was closed due to gusting winds. We got back on the commuter train and ended up in Bioparc Fuengirola, which was well worth the trip. Flamingos just inside the entrance.

You can't see them very well, but there was a pile of lemurs on the island.

Some exotic, yet awfully familiar birds.

A sparrow is a sparrow is a sparrow.

Incredibly glossy black chickens of some sort.

And hanging from the roof beams, fruit bats.

Mouse deer.

No idea, but it looked like it was made from felt.

Well played.

Iguana and giant tortoises.

A pile of porcupines - they slept while the meercats played outside in the enclosure in the daytime, then swapped places at night.

Small groups were allowed on to the lemur island - lemurs really don't care. The member of staff was very clear that we would all get kicked out if anyone touched a lemur, and there were a few close calls with young children, but overall it was amazing.

There were the well-known ring-tailed lemurs as well, but they seemed to prefer the treetops.

Not sure why the whole of Spain is not obese.

Malaga has some excellent graffiti. 

David tries the Tiny Rebel Hadouken - we were a bit upset to find out that Tiny Rebel is the brewery, so the beer is just called Hadouken.

They had a very, very big book of beers.

Kernel panic.

The shelving on one side...

... and the other.

Highly recommended.

And on the last day...

More boquerones!

And wondering how Spaniards stay so slim.