Bedraggled Blackbird

Taking shelter under the garden table.
Even the blackbird is fed up of the weather!
Stayed there for ages, until nextdoor's cat came a chased it away!

Sorry about the poor quality of the photo, which was taken through the window, and it was pouring down!
A wet and windy New Years Eve Day.

Glad we are staying in and having friends round for a meal.

M doesn't like fancy food, and no cheese, so I'm cooking a Steak and Kidney pudding, with roasted parsnips, carrots and potatoes, Red cabbage, mashed potatoes, and peas.
Followed by cheese and biscuits (for the rest of us)
Then some M&S Petit Fours
2 orange cakes,
2 almond cakes
2 tarte au citron
2 chocolate and hazelnut tartlets
2 raspberry tartlets
2 cherry tartlets
Just hope they are as good as they look on the box!
(I will let you know)

Have a good New Years Eve everyone!