A Snapshot of January

• New Year's Day listening to the rain and making plans for 2014
• Starting our Q&A A Day three year journal book
• Planning and enjoying a birthday surprise for M: Dinner at London Carriage Works, watching Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl accompanied by the full Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (absolutely amazing!). Followed by ....

• Cocktails for two in Liverpool's city centre and...

• 3am visit to an old pizza haunt before crashing to sleep at Hope Street Hotel.

• Travelling for more birthday celebrations with M's family
• Wrapping up for a birthday walk around Yorkshire Sculpture Park

• Discovering Sherlock, and then realising that there are only THREE episodes per season
• Eating a fancy four course home cooked meal and generally agreeing to make more effort to cook for each other
• Cosying on the couch and watching films
• Saying goodbye to Christmas 2013

• A mammoth clearing and cleaning session downstairs and finally moving Christmas boxes from landing to loft on 11th January
• Walking around Albert Dock with a steamed milk with caramel, learning more about Liverpool's history at the Museum of Liverpool and going for dinner at Gusto at the Albert Dock
• Ordering and starting to use my yoga DVD
• Going through 2013's holiday snaps

• Making 2014's holiday plans
• Receiving our first supermarket home delivery (somewhat of an anti-climax with short sell by dates and mouldy red onions!)
• Dinner together with friends
• Booking a March weekend break to Centre Parcs with my sister in law and her husband

• An Indian Head massage 
• Heading out for just dessert (something I've always wanted to do!) at Las Iguanas in Liverpool One 
• New TV addiction: The Following
• A Scrabble and cake date at one of our favourite spots, The Moon and Pea on Lark Lane

• Hen do planning 
• After work hot chocolate catch ups
• A new MAC lipstick 
• Afternoon Tea with a rum punch twist at The Sapphire Lounge with my lovely mum

• Taking part in Florence Finds' #JanuaryJoy