We would like to wish all our friends and family a Merry Christmas. We hope you have a fantastic day where ever you are.

Aimee and I are looking forward to our first Christmas together by ourselves. It is a bit sad to be away from home, but we are loking forward to cooking up a Christmas feast in our cosy London flat.

It doesn't look like being a White Christmas though, the forecast is for 13c and rain.

The sun came out today! I'm so excited I thought I'd share the news with everyone. It has been ages since we've seen the sun or any blue sky here in London, literally weeks. It has just been gray, drizzly and cold.

I finally got a job. I'm now working in Technical Support for Easily.co.uk, an ISP and Domain name registration company in London. Easily provides Internet access / hosting and email services for personal and corporate users, as well as internet domain name registration services. If you contact Easily for help, you might get me.

We just spent an fantastic weekend in Paris. We caught the Eurostar train over there on Saturday morning, and returned Monday night, after celebrating Aimee's birthday in style.

Paris is a beautiful city. It seems to be amazingly unspoilt - the buildings are all old and of Parisian style. The meandering alleyways (of the Left Bank at least) are filled with cute cafes and boutique shops and galleries - and you couldn't find a McDonalds, a Burger King or a Starbucks chain store if you tried. We have heard much about how touristy Paris is, but it is now winter (the temp was between about 0c and 4c the whole time) so there were hardly any tourists or lines to get in anywhere. Most people we came across were actually french and everybody spoke to us in French, assuming we did too (but hello and thank-you is about it for us).

Back on October 4th I foolishly posted an entry on how nice the weather had been here in London. Well, very soon after this in a flurry of storms that removed most of the leaves from the trees (and some of the trees too) in one go, the temperature dropped about 10 degrees. Now it has dropped another notch, and winter is here.