Photo of the Day No.7 - Winter Sunrise

This morning I woke up to this, isn't a white winter just wonderful. And as for the rest of Great Britain, this amazing photo shows it all....Frozen Britain (from the BBC).

Photo of the Day No.6 - Our New Friends

Last night it started snowing, then snowed more, and more, and this evening when we got home from work after leaving work in a blizzard of snow cornflakes Mark and I headed up to Hampstead Heath and Parliament hill to enjoy the snow.

The lights of London reflected off the white sky and white snow made a potentially miserable winters evening blindingly light. Amazing. Oh, and the crunching sound of snow under your feet is better than listening to coco pops for breakfast. I WILL MISS SNOW!!!

When we got back we "made" a few little friends out front of the flat. Marks was slightly disrespectful of my penguin looking snow man and decided to make his own, more normal (apparently) looking snow man. Perfectly, a kind neighbour had left out their Xmas tree for our new friends to enjoy too.

Ps later in the evening our snow friends got a new friend, seems we're not the only ones building snowmen!!

A bit of Puccini

I love anything that is exotic and beautiful, Opera for me is no exception, though to be honest I did find Wagners "The Ring Cycle" a little tough to watch.

However, this time the opera was Puccini's, "La Boheme" and it was nothing but something of immaculate beauty, something for all the senses.

The singing was champagne for the ears, the story so romantic and hopeful. The set was divine visual splendour, perfectly prepared you could easily mistake that you were sitting in the spectacular Royal Opera House and felt you had been transported to a very wintery, but ever so glamorous 18th century bohemian Paris. The taste was of champagne in the interval and the smell, was that of snow outside when the show ended.

Simply stunning, and yes I did cry at the end.

The Perrier Jouet Bar, nice! And we reserved our interval champers

The view from our seats

See, me with my Champagne

And Miss Amy with her Champagne

Photo of the Day No.5 - La Boheme

A big tick on my "To Do" list, a list that grows quicker than it shrinks. Tonight my lovely friend Amy came along with me, she was tickled pink too, to see the beautiful Puccini opera La Boheme at London's famous Covent Garden Royal Opera House.
I had wanted to see it for quite some time, waited 3 hours on the internet for my turn to buy tickets and was almost afraid that I would be disappointed. Far from it, we had amazing seats across front of the top balcony, so we didn't feel hemmed in and we could see all of the stage and orchestra pits perfectly.

A lovely glass of champagne in the interval, a magical evening, simply stunning.

Photo of the Day No.4 - 3pm attention lapse

Ah 3pm, a time where the day suddenly seems long and yet there is still 2 hours till home time, today I only have to turn my head left to see out over the beautiful red winter sunset over St James's park towards North East London. Spectacular, even if I cannot convey that just here.

Christmas Lights of London 2009

John Lewis, Oxford Street
Debenhams, Oxford Street

More Debenhams, Oxford Street
Selfridges, Oxford Street (near Bond Street)
Harrods, Knightsbridge

Covent Garden Apple Markets
Carnaby Street, tucked in Regent and Oxford Streets

Burrr its cold out there

BBC weather at 7pm today....

Seems its been a while since I gave a run down on the weather. Basically its best for brass monkeys, not us squidgey soft warm bodied humans. We've had a really cold winter so far, we even had a great dumping of snow right before Christmas and most of the North its been pretty much non stop chaos causing snow (but that wouldn't be hard 2mm rain and there is chaos) since mid-December.

I keep thinking how gorgeous Scotland would be to visit right now, then change my mind everytime I leave the flat. Next week, as you can see, is set to be cold and its the first week I have seen with temperatures for the day at zero. Scarf, gloves and ear muffs are at the ready!!

Photo of the Day No.3 - Can you tell its cold?

It certainly felt cold my feet felt like they were encassed in mini blocks of ice on my walk home from the bus. The street looked rather pretty bathed in the last of the gorgeous sunny winters daylight, at the late hour of 4pm...sigh, looking forward to the longer days then, eh.

Photo of the Day No.2 - Shiny Disco Balls...ur Not

After being a bit housebound yesterday Mark and I journeyed out to Trafalgar square today, then on to Burlington Arcade, along the way however we found this amazingly shiny ball structure outside the Royal Academy of Arts (note to self add this to list of places must see before leave London...check). Oooo shiny, had to take some photos...oooo pretty.

Photo of the Day No.1 - Living Room Nightmares

Our living room today, indeed a nightmare, packing for the journey home.