whoa – it’s freezing in london. literally freezing (0c and 32f). which is notable, since it rarely ever gets that cold here, even in the middle of winter. it even snowed the other morning, for about 10 minutes. big fluffy feather-flakes for a split second, and by the time you made a cup of hot cocoa, it was gone, leaving only wet pavement behind.

however all of this is conspiring to keep me from accomplishing the one thing i had on the agenda for my entire holiday, which was going to see the dale chihuly exhibit at kew gardens. we’ve been trying to go since summertime, even having to turn back once after spending nearly 2 hours in traffic. every weekend we were free, it rained, and every weekend it was sunny, we had other plans. now here it is, the middle of winter, the exhibit closes on 15th jan, and i cannot get one single free *sunny* day to go. argh.

yesterday was spent cleaning. i mean deep down, elbow grease, bleach and toothbrush cleaning. j spent the day paying bills and getting the car m.o.t. and license, since we’ll have to sell brucie now. anyone know someone who wants to buy a 1996 vauxhall astra estate? good running condition, m.o.t.’d for a whole year, about 90,000 miles on it – we’re hoping to get about £800 for him. sad, because we’ve had so much fun with him, but has to be done sometime in the next month. anyone ever sell a vehicle on ebay? how’d you do it?

we suddenly have an onslaught of pigeons, and though i don’t like the flying rats at the best of times, i *do* feel somewhat bad for them – it’s not their fault that living in the city makes them gross and pitiful and forces them to do disgusting things like eat vomit. however the other night we were sitting in the lounge with the blinds open (one whole wall of our lounge is windows, which is nice for sunlight but bad for warmth) when i looked up just as a pigeon flew face first into the glass with a funny *thonk* sound. as i ran to look at it, it appeared to be stunned but okay, sitting on the balcony for a few moments before taking off – thank goodness, as i didn’t relish having to play good samaritan to a dirty bird in need, but wouldn’t have been able to just *leave* it there. then, the other morning as we were watching the brief snowy interlude, i noticed there was a dead pigeon on our bedroom balcony. ewwww. i was convinced that it was the same one that flew into the window, but j seemed to think it was an unrelated avian death of natural causes. so my immediate thought was to go grab some plastic bags to get rid of it, and was about to go do so, but jonno piped up and basically volunteered to deal with it, so i let him. sometimes husbands some in handy.

that’s all the excitement so far! “goonies” is on, and i’m off to research trains from singapore to kuala lumpur…

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