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Tue 16 Nov 2010
And so Autumn has turned very cold. Today there's a sturdy frost over everything outside. Poor Steve took 20 minutes just to scrape away 1-2cm of ice from the windscreen. Here he is scraping the inside too! (above)
Below: Autumn leaves in the gutter edged in the frost.

  

Fri 19 Nov 2010

 
After work, Jen decides that the Xmas tree is going up! Yes it's early, but all the adverts and stores already have Xmas songs and decorations everywhere. Here's Steve adding the finishing touch to the tree - the angel on top.

Just in time, the tree's done. Kev and Tash turn up for a lovely Steve-cooked dinner of chook parmijiana, wedges, dessert, and some serious fine ale drinking. Here's Tash trying to hide from the blogger... no such luck sweetie.

Sun 21 Nov 2010
Today we went out and saw the new film, Harry Potter and the DH part I.
We're both eagerly awaiting part II now.

Tue 23 Nov 2010
After work we visited the doctor together. We're now vaccinated against Typhoid - sigh, the downside of intending to visit Egypt. It will be so nice (and traditional for us Aussies) to be somewhere warm for Christmas.

Wed 24 Nov 2010
Steve goes to fighter practice and got whacked on the typhoid shot (arm) - ouch!

Fri 26 Nov 2010

This evening Steve cooked up a fab favourite of Duck in cherry sauce, for our visitors Soph and Paul. Well it is now almost their 6 month wedding anniversary and the happy couple stayed over for tomorrow's adventure of...

Sat 27 Nov 2010

Filming. Jen has a go at mucking about with a camcorder, with Soph and Paul the stars of the action, and Jen will get around to playing with video editing too in the coming weeks. Thanks to Soph and Paul who patiently followed Jen's direction. Hooray for Steve as the official on-set caterer too.  :-)  Especially the fab nachos for lunch!

Sun 28 Nov 2010
With it being so chilly outside, we stayed in. Steve had a great day playing online games with friends from around the world. Jen got stuck into some spring cleaning (or should that be autumn cleaning).
Here's the frost on the car today (right)... yep the photo was taken from the upstairs window, where it is warm.

Tue 30 Nov 2010
Snow! Steve drove to work in this!  Jen got the bus.

Above: zoomed-in view from Jen's window/wall at work; 
Below: and another shot from Jen's work - you can see the millenium dome (the O2) and Canary Wharf skyscrapers at the horizon.

Wed 1 Dec 2010
Steve goes to fighter practice, and was surprised by and extra 3 or so inches of snow appearing on the car in the 3 hours he was there.
Jen sensibly stays indoors, and emails a bunch of organ builders and suppliers to enquire about getting flue pipes made for building our own portative organ - a project which Steve generously offered to do for Jen awhiles ago and its only recently that Jen's been interested in deciding how she wants it to look.

Thu 2 Dec 2010
MORE snow!!!!! And yes we're both getting to and from work OK. Steve finds its much much more slippery on the roads as the snow has been compacted into ice.
Here's our front door inside and out; and shots in the neighbourhood.

Jen says hooray for snow boots!