It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

It's been a while since our last post, mainly because work's been keeping us busy. Now thinking fondly of our days of leisure in Paris!
Winter is setting in here, although it has been the warmest autumn on record. Go global warming. This weekend it's been clear and crisp - the best kind of weather for a walk on Hampstead Heath.

Hampstead Heath
The main downer at the moment is that it gets dark at 3.50 in the afternoon. So it's dark when you leave for work in the morning and dark when you get home.
However, there are some benefits to a northern hemisphere winter, and Christmas is definitely one of them. Christmas just seems to make so much more sense here. There are Christmas lights up in the streets, mulled wine seems like an attractive proposition, and there are lots of Christmas festivities to break up an otherwise dreary winter.
We will be spending Christmas in London by ourselves, cooking a nice meal, drinking some champagne, then going out for a walk in the frosty air (assuming that it's not raining - unfortunately snow isn't predicted this Christmas).
We've cancelled our planned trip to Paris for New Year's because it was too expensive but we're not too disappointed because we've instead decided to go to Prague for a weekend in January. Stu went to school with a guy from the Czech Republic who now lives in Prague with his girlfriend so we are going to visit them. Will be great to be shown the place by a local. Can't wait!