Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Oxford!

We are very much enjoying our final weeks of just a twosome and sleeping in a lot! Since we haven't made any big plans of travel or exploring, we are cleaning, rearranging furniture and doing lots of laundry. It sure is nice to be lazy and not feel guilty about it!


December has been a fun month, with a final European jaunt to visit Bettina and Stefan in their new flat and life in Bonn, Germany. We visited an indoor and the outdoor Christmas markets, some shopping and just relaxed and ate well at their spacious place. It was so nice to see them before our lives change with baby on the way! And while it was still easy to travel!

We also had the annual physics Christmas party, this year at St Anthony's College. Not the prettiest of colleges, but I would say the food was good and the Senior Common Room for the presentations was warm and comfy. Obviously baby is making himself known by now!

On Christmas day, we were kindly invited over to Ian and Kate Walmsley's again for dinner - same place we went to in 2007. It was fun to see the work they've done to the house and how much their kids have grown in five years. Really puts into perspective how long we've lived here already!

We plan to spend New Year's Eve at our friend's Adam and Maggie's - little Izzy is already 2 and she has a brother/sister on the way due in April.  Lots of babies this year!

Best wishes for 2012!!