I’m starting the New Year in the most positive and loveliest way I can think of spending time with my grandchildren. Regular readers will know I’m an extremely proud Grandaddy of eleven grandchildren and have a photo page here on my website devoted to them. They all have their beautiful given names from their parents but they also have another name which I gave them.

Here in this photo I’m at home with seven of my little people and they are Bubbles (Katie), Bluebell (Ayla), Snowdrop (Rhiannon), Tinkerbell (Ellie), Princess (Leah), Hamlet (Ethan) and Rafferty (Sebastian).

Happy New Year everyone from us all. I hope you are showered with blessings of peace, love and happiness through 2013 x Love Alan x