Happy New Year!

Happy new year to you! The Christmas holidays have whizzed but so quickly in the frenzied way they always do but each day filling with the future's happy memories. 

Brixham looked particularly beautiful in the days between Christmas and new year, soft afternoon sunshine lighting up the harbour.

Then came my birthday on new year's eve!

A day out in Cornwall was the plan and the first stop was the river Fowey on Bodmin Moor. The riverside trees wore their magical coat of glowing moss, so beautiful.

Just along the road from there is the place called Jamaica Inn. It's just as I imagined it would look from reading the novel of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier.

After a hearty meal the coast was calling me so we headed out towards Padstow. I hadn't been there for years so the Rick Stein 'takeover' came as a surprise! I'm sure he only had one restaurant when I was last there. :)

I love that blue woodwork on the Almshouses. :)

The windows around the side of the almshouses were amazing too but I forgot to take a photo so here's one I stole from Mr Google. I'm sure he won't mind. 

There were shops around the harbour aplenty but at this time of year I don't know about you but I get a bit shopped out! I'd rather sit looking at a nice view with a delicious hot chocolate.

So here I am, another year older, another year wiser, almost ready to make my new year's resolutions but first I need to finish all those chocolates, mince pies and Christmas cake don't I?

See you soon with my sparkly new resolutions. I wonder if you are making any? :)