55 days

went for a whole day antenatal class yesterday, and must say that everything sounds pretty daunting, but doable :) 

can't wait to get these 6 weeks of work done and over with.

in the meantime i need to look forward to putting on 0.5kg a week cos apparently baby is only half the size she is supposed to be now - how on earth can that be? i think she's more than big enough now thankyouverymuch. 

just a few more weekends left to do whatever else we need to do before we can't get on with them... the Ledbury last Sat was lovely. it is one restaurant i've been wanting to go for a long time, but never got down to it because it's on the other side of London. The service is first class, a rarity in London and they kindly considered everything, smoking the duck ham twice to ensure it's cooked thoroughly, giving me special pasteurised milk butter, etc, and the food was a perfect 10/10! I would go back in a jiffy (considering it is actually incredibly reasonably priced for a 2-star michelin restaurant especially when you don't order any alcohol) but i don't think that's even a remote possibility for a long time! 

also a few more weekends left to buy the ultra expensive big ticket items we have been putting off for way too long. Bring on the baby all-terrain tank! it's a good thing that the MIL has given up waiting for us to get our act together and went ahead and bought a ton of clothes and other things for us, haha. 

last winter in London?

what if, this were our last winter in London?

one last familiar christmas light display that comes on from oct - feb, one last eerily quiet Christmas day, one last boxing day/January sale, one last never-ending wait for Spring?

Scary thoughts. But we need to stop assuming that this is our life as it is, and change may sweep up along again, and this time next year, we may not be here.

Bonfire night - 5 Nov 2013

I love fireworks. Not quite sure what it is about them but I find the burst of colour and light quite spectacular. Casting back my mind's eye to my first bonfire night in 2009, when I braved the cold to get to Southwark Park for the fireworks display, and was so impressed that it lasted at least a good 20 minutes. Between then and now, I have been thoroughly spoilt - 2 weddings with fireworks, new year's eve, and since moving to this apartment, a panoramic view of fireworks displays across London especially on NYE and 5th of Nov. As the clock strikes 12 on 1 Jan, it is quite cool to see all the fireworks displays going up at once all over London. As for bonfire night, well, the celebrations start the weekend before...

This evening though, as I was looking out the window in the relative warmth and comfort of home, I wondered what the next Bonfire night would hold for us. Will we still be in London? Will we be pushing a stroller somewhere in the cold trying to join in one of the bonfire night displays? Or will we just get sick and tired of the whole fanfare? What kind of child will this be?

Anyway, it's 67 days to go, and just 7.5 weeks until I can stop work... including christmas, hurray! time to start doing some serious shopping...

On another note, we did it!!! One of the crazy things I have always wanted to do is to just book a holiday on a whim, and today we booked a weekend trip to Barcelona for this weekend! It will be a crazy travel weekend, but really looking forward to escaping somewhere warm!