November

Already its only six weeks to Christmas, and it felt closer on the weekend. We went for a walk down Oxford Street after Jeremy finished work on Saturday and all the Christmas lights are up already and all the shops have their Christmas displays. Of course it was pretty much dark at 4.30pm so they were all sparkley and looking great. There were heaps of people out shopping and around about even tho it was cold and on and off raining all afternoon. Such a great atmosphere even this far away from christmas, I don't think it'd really be that fun in the week before Christmas tho as even now it was hard to make our way down the street!!!



SO yup Jeremy got a job. We are very excited about this cos now we can afford to have a life and go do things and really enjoy London life. He's working in little cafe in Central London which mainly caters to business people, he makes coffee, serves food and generally all the usual cafe duties. He starts most days at 7am and its a 30 min tube ride so we've been having very early starts in our house at the moment!!!

We really enjoyed the Guy Fawkes celebrations here, it is a much bigger deal here that at home (obviously) and the fireworks for sale sounded much more powerful than the ones at home too. for the week before and after the 5th Nov we could hear lots of loud banging all round our house. We went to a council bonfire and fireworks display which was fantastic. A huge bonfire and the firewoks were really good and put to music too. (I'll try to remember to put up some photos). There was heaps of fun fair rides and candy floss stalls and mulled wine for sale.



At the moment we are thinking about the logistics of coming home in late February for a visit so stay tuned.

Lots of Love Gem