I’ve been meaning to put this picture up for a while now. It’s our bedroom, and it shows the gorgeous quilt that Tom’s Mum made for us (all by herself!), which she gave us back in July on our visit to S.A.
We’ve been cosying up under it in front of the TV for a [...]
We spent Christmas with our somewhat unconventional, but rather fun, friends Simon and Nicola. As a Christmas present, they gave us a little bag of googly eyes attached to a suggestion booklet. This was, perhaps, inadvisable, as is witnessed by their hammer and phone:
Although, in fairness, our flat in London also didn’t escape the madness.
One of the great things about Tokyo is our office location. Here is the view from the 44th floor of Mori Tower, where my team in Tokyo have their desks:
Here is a zoom on the cluster of buildings in the distance:
Finally, here is an open-air theatre just outside our building:
Just when we were thinking that the mild temperatures of autumn were going to follow us through to January, winter startled us by coming from behind and making rapid progress earlier this week!
Out of the blue, the streets of Shepherds Bush were wreathed in a rather picturesque mist when we emerged the other morning. [...]
After 5 years languishing in storage, the little tree that I’ve owned since I was too young to remember, is back in its rightful place at Christmas.
We’re still fairly short of space in the lounge so it has the slightly unusual position of the dining room table this year. Nevertheless it helps [...]
Somehow, in all our going-on 10 years of marriage, we’ve managed to get by without ever having to purchase a new fridge. All our fridges to date have come to us via some form of inheritance.
So it was an exciting moment, two Saturdays back, when we handed over the credit card for our very first [...]
It all started back in Anglesey in August when a mobile speed camera caught us doing 35 just inside a 30mph zone. The penalty was £60 and 3 points on Tom’s licence, OR attend a £60 speed awareness course and no points on the licence. We decided to take the course.
Which was [...]
