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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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