Monday, January 19, 2009

Ghost of Christmas past


Tonight I packed up the Christmas tree and house decorations for another year. The living room is back to its regular layout once again. Oman already feels like a dream. Were we really lounging in the sun by a crystal clear swimming pool only three weeks ago? (If you scroll down to the original blog posting you'll see that I've added an image of us enjoying the surf on Christmas Day).

I really miss warm weather. This has definitely been the coldest winter since our arrival in London. November was the coldest November in a decade, while December the coldest in the UK since 1996. The provisional mean value for December was a bitter 3.1 °C, which is 0.7 °C below the 1961-1990 average. The cold winter has made me terribly homesick for Australia.

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