Happy New Year!
Gosh it's hard to believe that Christmas and New Year's Eve have been and gone. It all sped by so quickly.
We're just back from a lovely New Year's Eve celebration with our dear friends P & A down in Poole. We had a really chilled time with good food and best friends. I can think of no better way to welcome in a new year.
It was blustery, bracing weather. We had long beach walks on which we were buffeted by the elements, and from which we returned with soggy children and a sandy Wonderdog.
And then yesterday, on New Year's Day, we went to the Poole Harbour Bath Race, which must be an event without equal. The competitors sailed bath tubs in a race across Poole Harbour. They brought eggs and flour bombs with which they pelted the competition and the spectators, and the spectating public reciprocated in kind: many families were seen clutching mulitpacks of eggs for defensive purposes.
I think the bouncy castle with jumping Santas was the winner, but, in all the chaos of not being able to see over the heads of the people in front, I really couldn't swear to it. Somewhere under that great fortification there's a bath tub housing the small generator that kept the whole thing inflated. Apparently that was enough to make the ensemble qualify as a bath tub for the purposes of the race.
It was a seaworthy craft comprising several bath tubs, and I am happy to report that it survived the race. Luckily there were lots of lifeboats on hand to save those who didn't fare so well.
All the best for a very happy, healthy & creative 2018,
Bonny x
Happy New Year, Bonny! Your New Year celebrations sound like a lot of fun. I haven’t been to Poole in years, but remember it being a beautiful place and the bath race must have been quite a spectacle. Sending best wishes for 2018. Marie x
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