I took a short break during a very busy day and took a short video with my girlfriend at lunch time today where we walked from Green Park, through Saint James’ Park and ended in Trafalgar Square. These are pretty much the only clips which weren’t blurred by us throwing snowballs at each other and generally breaking the digital camera I bought for her at Christmas.
The snow completely transformed the capital – I’ve never seen it like this before!
On the Saturday before Christmas I was lucky enough to spend some time with gorgeous little baby Michael (who is now nearly two months old), David and Aggeliki. I’m in charge of the starter for our fifteen-person family Christmas lunch this year so we met up in Borough Market at London Bridge to pick up some of the best fresh produce available in London. David insisted I have one of the huge sausages from the German stall for breakfast. Combine that with a fresh juice and a coffee from the Monmouth Coffee Company and you really do have the breakfast of champions.
Christmas Day itself was a fantastic blur of catching up with family members, opening presents, food preparation (and consumption), and watching my beautiful niece run around the house and jump all over us like a Duracell Bunny. I received a gorgeous Reiss shirt from my brother and sister, and a beautiful black cashmere scarf from my parents; fine presents indeed!
Last Saturday David and I babysat Michael while my girlfriend and his wife went out to watch the English National Ballet perform The Nutcracker. I would have loved to have seen the ballet, but David and I had a blast watching cheesy (but brilliant and classic) action movies with baby Michael – a real man’s night in.
2008 was an incredible year. Now I’m going to relax for a couple of days before 2009 begins.
Happy New Year everyone!
This is a very interesting documentary about what’s happening with the US economy in the past, present and future.
The solution? Let’s all move to China!!!
Just kidding. Alternatively maybe we should start questioning what our governments are doing to protect our futures and not just what they’ll do over the next twelve months in order to get re-elected. As well as what we can do to help.
