I love the smell of fresh pine so it’s great to see fresh Christmas trees for sale everywhere. The fresh kind is the best and believe me when I say once you have a fresh Christmas tree, you will never want to go back to the artificial ones again.
In my first 2 Christmases as [...]

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Drive to Nowhere

We are feeling free, free, free cos Ken has finished his exams! So we decided super last minute to drive out to suburbia America just for fun, with very little idea where we would end up.
We drove first to Fire Island, a summer hotspot which is pretty much deserted this time of the [...]

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Naughty or Nice?

Warning: This is an entry full of exclamation marks.
I must have been all sugar and nice this year because I received 2 unexpected presents this week in the mail! The first one is from a friend of Ken’s dad who has sent Ken’s Mum and I a jacket each from his wife’s fall/winter collection (wife’s [...]

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Enchanted with Enchanted

Ken surprised me last week by asking me if I wanted to watch Enchanted. I did and loved it. It’s the kind of movie that made you want to walk all over NY and fall in love all over again. The cinema was filled with kids on school trip and they gave an additional [...]

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First Snow 2007

It’s snowing!!! Very gently, very gracefully, floating down and frosting all things white. Looking more and more like a white Christmas in New York.
There are things to be done before the snow melts away and turn sloashy and dirty. So I woke Ken up and hurried him out to Washington Sq Park to take [...]

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Eat, Drink and be Merry!

Phoenix was the perfect sort of break where we eat a lot, rest a lot and catch up a lot with friends. The kind of holiday that keeps you smiling even for days after it ended, and even after a a super long delay on our return flight. Yah, it’s really that good.
We are [...]

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