Lazy evening in

We are curled up on the sofa - 9.15pm in England, so morning for most of you! On TV is a doco called The 80-year-old Children, which is about a family in India where five out of seven of the children have a disease called Progeria, meaning they age abnormally quickly. It's incredible; feeling pretty lucky right now.

Today was Paul's first day off, thanks to half term. (I still haven't managed to get out of him what time he got up!) He had quite a productive day, translating a speech for Rob's wedding and doing some housework. One of my old friends from uni, Lisa, came over for dinner, and he even cooked for us - an awesome Thai Green Curry - so we could have a proper gossip.

I had another interview this afternoon. This one was working as a sales administrator for a luxury food company. I was interviewed by the MD himself, so hopefully they thought I was an impressive candidate! I don't know, I've been for so many interviews now, it's hard to say how they've gone. But fingers crossed. I quite liked the sound of this one, and it's very close to home.

Paul wants to write more about Joey's visit, but we're both pretty tired so we'll save that for another day. Plus, there are some more pics (Paul has downloaded a program that allows him to fix them up a bit, but unfortunately no airbrushing...)

Thank you lots for all your comments!

Christmas 2005

Here are a few snaps of Christmas in England with Leisa's family and a few "ring-ins".

Joey came down after "tidying up a few loose ends" in Scotland. We didn't get the much talked about white christmas but had to settle for a white boxing day instead. Christmas dinner was fantastic, and Leisa's family made us feel very welcome.

Then it was down to London in a hire car to move into our new flat. Leisa's friend, Maria sprung an engagement party on her so Leisa decided to come down after the party. Luckily enough, I had Joey with me for the trip. And with his touching renditions of Brit pop to keep me awake, it was no time before we made it to London.

After settling into our new flat in Hounslow, West London, we were lucky enough to get some new visitors. Lou and John arrived at the end of their six week European holiday.

Testing, testing!

Well, here we are - in London, and finally in the 21st century with our very own blog. Hoping this will be a great way to keep everyone up to speed with what's going on on this side of the pond, with a little pictoral evidence! (Though in the future, maybe jointly-written posts will be banned, as it's just taken us twenty minutes to come up with these three lines between us.....)