It's freezing cold here this morning. There was ice in the park on the way to work and I only saw one slow moving squirrel instead of the usual plague of them. The problems with the office heating continues, my workmate Irfan measured the temperature as 14degrees at his desk this morning. Workplace health and safety says it shouldn't be that cold unless we're all performing hard manual labour. This job can be hard and stressful sometimes, but hard labour it's not.

Last Wednesday at Karate I got some badges to sew onto my Gi. They're the same badges everyone else has, I just hadn't been given them yet. Friday night came and I realised that I hadn't sewn them on yet, so I sat down thinking "This'll take me 10 minutes" and started sewing. I'm terrible, the first attempt went bad, the first badge was too low. So I...

Another weekend is over and I'm sitting on the couch thinking about ironing my shirts, typing this up while also keeping an eye on the eggs boiling in the kitchen. Boiled eggs make a really good afternoon snack to keep you going until you get home.
Hopefully I have installed a theme that I actually will like long term. I keep installing new ones, liking them for 2 days then end up hating them. The photo in this one though is a photo that Sarah took on our Truck Trip. Camping overlooking the Dead Sea.

Didn't do too much with our weekend, it's been nice and relaxing. Apart from all the fireworks going off, it's fireworks night tomorrow night and all weekend the sky has been lit up with fireworks. It's not the sky lighting up that you notice though, it's the noise of them. You're obviously allowed to by...

It's so cold here every morning now. Not just now and then, but all the time. The office is freezing cold too most of the time, I'm not sure what's wrong with our new office but something is. Sarah bought me a £5 scarf yesterday, she went to buy one for herself but instead ended buying one for me and didn't even get one for herself! How nice is she?
I guess we better get used to the cold though, because at Christmas we're heading off to...

Switzerland! Grindelwald to be exact. We're staying there from the 22nd Dec through to the 29th, then heading off to Paris for New Years. I'm really looking forward to another white Christmas, the last was way back when I was in Toronto. I can't ski or snowboard, but hopefully by the end of our little holiday we'll be experts at it!
Paris should...

We had a real flat white yesterday. A proper, tasty, just-like-being-home flat white. It was a bit of a mission to get to the cafe, but it was worth it. We had to hop on the tube for 20 minutes, get a bit lost a Picadilly Circus, walk through the dodgy area (heaps of sex shops) and down a gloomy looking street. All the other shops on the street were closed, but Flat White itself was packed with people. The two coffee's they made us were just perfect, it's strange that something I used to have twice a day is now a rare luxury.

After our tasty coffee's we kept walking around the area we were in. Soho I think it's called. Lots of tourists (I have to keep reminding myself that I too am a tourist) but not overly packed like some of the other popular tourist destinations...

So as Sarah has noted in a previous comment, it's been a while since I've updated. The simple reason for this is because I am lazy, and the last week, also often fairly exhausted!
We're on day 12 of our diet now, the second day where we're allowed to reintroduce one thing into our diet and see how it affects us. Yesterday, I chose coffee. Who wouldn't?

Only problem being, after my first two coffee's (black with no sugar), my head felt like it had been stuffed full with cotton wool and I felt overall quite funny. Not ill, but just not normal. It wasn't what I was expecting! Where was my happy caffine buzz? Maybe I will just give up caffine all together, except for the odd bit of chocolate etc. I have been sleeping like a brick for the last week and finding it really easy to get...