I'm dreaming of a White Chris...... Birthday!

I'm currently writing this from the comfort of my sofa waiting whilst Naomi makes me some lovely steak and chips for my birthday meal.... today being my birthday by the way! Well I shall start by saying what us Devonshire Hodges have been up to this week!

Sunday was Mutley Baptists Chris-tingle service the Chris-tingle being a symbolic object used to show advent. Well basically the end product is a Orange, wrapped in a ribbon, with a candle on it and some sweeties attached... well from the following two Christ-tingles belonging to me and Naomi... which do you think belongs to who?

(note one with sweets and one without!)

The next major event of the week (yes we lead very exciting lives) which occurred the very same evening... me and Naomi made our first roast as a married couple! I know shock horror its actually taken us over 4 months to get around to making our first roast! Well the roast was really a slap up meal consisting of the same ingredients that a roast is made out of (chicken, potatoes, carrots etc). The end product was tasty tasty tasty so that's all that mattered!

Well the rest of the week consisted of me having work Christmas doo's! Ooooh and Naomi got offered a job! Which was nice!

This leading nicely up to the second most important birthday in December... MY BIRTHDAY! Today it decided to snow, which was nice so we were obviously forced into going for a walk on Dartmoor:

The rest of today is going to consist of me and Naomi getting fat and full on some tasty food and watching ELF to get us all Christmassy! Fun times!

It's Christmas in the Hodge house hold!

So the 9th of December has marked a magical moment in our marriage and both of our lives... we bought our first Christmas Tree! GASP!

We decided that we'd go for a small tree, and Naomi created and added her home made decorations... so its a classic team Hodge DIY job. Some could say it looks tacky, but we say its made from love!

We also went for another walk this weekend but we didn't get wet... SCORE!

Other than the Christmas Tree and the Walk we haven't actually done much since the last update... well obviously we have actually done stuff like we've eaten food, gone to work and gone food shopping etc, but other than that we're just looking forward to the Christmas break. I think I've set a personal record for my Christmas shopping this year of getting all mine done within 30min... all credit goes to Amazon!

That is all thanks for reading! 

A WET walk on Dartmoor

Well if you haven't heard on the news or been outside for a while, you might have noticed that its been a TAD wet of late! Well this didn't seem to deter Naomi insisting upon us going for a walk this weekend! However I sneakily decided this would be a good excuse to scope out some new routs to cycle on.

Well the start of the walk was a sign of things to come with us discovering Paul to be sitting in a pool of water... great!

So clearly I had to do the manly thing of walking out into the deep pool and drive Paul to a drier spot, I surprisingly did this without actually getting wet socks! We then drove out to the Moors successfully without driving into the back of anyone after Paul's brakes failed after the wetness, luckily they sorted themselves out after a quick spin!

We.... I'd decided we'd go for a little walk around this spot here on Dartmoor:

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The walk started off with a rather amusing comment from Naomi of (not a direct quote) "You don't need those Waterproof trousers".... oooh how wrong she was! The heaven's emptied I stayed bone dry Naomi's top half stayed dry... this said rain ran off onto her trousers and she got soaked... mehehehe! We walked up to one of the tours here was the view:

The view behind wasn't to bad either ;-)

The walk back to the car was rather amusing with the decision of the boring walk along the road or the walk down the vally over moor land.... for some odd reason we decided to walk down the vally.... vally's being known for the small bit of water flowing down the middle... which wasn't tooo small! Lets just say our feet got rather wet!

Well that is all for now.... thanks for reading!

PS Snuffles... for all those who were at our wedding is doing just fine living with us in our flat:

The Past couple of weeks!

Well we're both getting used to living in our new home! The past couple of weeks have been very testing upon our recently appointed calendar (see prior post), however under these testing times the calendar has held its own and is still displaying the correct date!

A number of weeks ago me and Naomi had a nice little picnic upon Dartmoor, however we may have got slightly lost on rout (obviously be a Hodge and being Male I knew exactly where I was) and by the time we got to a suitable spot we couldn't be arsed to actually get out of the car.... so being the classy people we are we ate in the car!

We then went for a little walk during which Naomi summoned me to climb a tree, the results weren't too successful!

Naomi has her has her birthday next week which is rather exciting, I'm sure this will result in another fascinating update from us! So make sure you check back here later this week!