Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years. Here's how we spent ours!
On Christmas Eve we caught the train down to Salisbury, lugging
a Christmas tree, tinsel, presents and the world's heaviest Christmas
cake with us. We met up with the other Christmas 'orphans', Sarah
McClusky, Tall Paul and Gus Lipman, at our fantastic inner city
flat and, after a couple of glasses of wine, we headed off to Salisbury
Cathedral. Midnight mass was great, although we suspect we freaked
out the people sitting in front of us by signing all the carols
in four-part harmony. Hey, several of us couldn't remember the melody!
Christmas Day was pretty relaxed, once we worked out how we could
fit the turkey and the enormous collection of vegies into the oven.
Sarah had done a great job of doing all the shopping for us. She
even managed to find cheesey Christmas crackers - we'd only found
really expensive ones that seemed to have tasteful gifts, nice hats
and no jokes! Check out the pictures
of us all stuffing our faces. After finally consuming the Christmas
pudding we sat down and watched the original Harry Potter film:
a great end to a great day.
We split the rest of our time in Salibury between the Christmas
sales, Old Sarum (Salibury before they realised that if they moved
the town two miles down the hill it'd be a lot warmer place to be)
and Stonehenge. On our day trip to the great stone circle we decided
to take some homemade ham sandwiches with us for lunch and must
have looked a sight huddled together for warmth on a bench (it must
have been -4 with wind chill), exchanging sandwiches and moaning
about the fact that they were all ham. Sarah's shopping saved the
day when Gus produced a bag of gingerbread biscuits.
We both had the pleasure of working the Thursday and Friday between
Christmas and New Years in near deserted offices, although Kate's
New Years Eve workday ended early when one of her workmates produced
a bottle of champagne. We had a quiet New Years Eve with Josie from
Perth and then got up early the next day and went to see the London
New Years Day parade. And
we've spent our long weekend watching Kate's Christmas present,
West Wing Season 4, and on a housemate trip to Tescos. Wow, who
says living in London isn't exciting?!
Hope you've all had a great start to 2005.
- 3rd January 2005
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