Christmas in London

well, it was not quite a white Christmas here in London. Last weeks snow had mostly melted away - although the white remains of snowmen still dot yards and are strewn across Clapham Common. It looks like a snowman massacre.

There is also still snow in our driveway in the form of a giant snowball Jed rolled last Saturday. it is still about 1m in height and the bets are on for how long it will survive. My bet is on late February. So I guess the Christmas was slighty a white one?

Last Sunday (the week before Christmas) the housemates all had a lovely Christmas dinner at the Devonshire, which is a really nice pub on the high street. We had roasts (I had venison mmm yummmy rudolph!) and pulled crackers and celebrated a week in advance.

Pre Christmas, I had a rush to get presents. I got Phebe a scarf from Topshop(that is like.. a circle as the ends are joined together.. it's cooler than it sounds), A mug for Jed (that is plain white but has "i'm a twat" written on the bottom so when he drinks from it.. fun ensues!) and packets of roses for tom and Lucy.

Christmas eve was alot of fun. We danced around in the kitchen drinking wine and eating cheese and dips whilst singing christmass songs along with itunes. Phebe was cooking up a storm in preparation for Christmas day.

On CHristmas day we woke up and opened our presents. I got a 20 pound topshop voucher from Jed and Phebe, a packet of roses and guidebooks for berlin and amsterdam from Tom and Lucy AND Kristy (one of the housemates- a very lovley girl) gave me a moisturiser/bath lotion set. I didn't expect it, but I went away and drew her some pictures to give her for christmas. I am not the world's best artist - I'm OK, but it's nice to have drawing as a part of your skillset when urgent presents are needed.

I went and prettied myself up for lunch and we started drinking wine and watching christmassy stuff on TV. Finally, the roast was ready to go and the 5 of us bundled in Jed's very small mini-car to have lunch at his brother's house.

The food was delicious and there were cocktails everywhere! It was good fun.. although we did have to start a kitchen dance party/rave when Guitar Hero started up in the lounge room. It's true that videogames are a little anti social.

We headed home eventually to find that all the heating in the house had broken. The housemates were all huddled around a single heater in the loungeroom. So we joined them, opened some more wine and stayed up to the wee small hours celebrating our orphan's Christmas cheer!

Today was boxing day but the tube was cancelled so we just lay in bed all day (as the house is absolutely freezing. As I sit here writing this huddled in my blankets, my breath is creating steam in the icy air. I would have got up to go to the boxing day sales, but the tube drivers decided to strike - so there was no transport in to oxford street. I'm going to go in tomorrow though and use my 20 pound topshop voucher as I may not get the chance to go in again - on tuesday we begin the EurotrIP phase of the holiday with a red-eye flight to Berlin. I'm SOOO EXCIteD! can't wait! NYE in BErlin here we come!