the update's over there...

Had a good day, not measured in achievement. The main thing I want to say in this quickly scribbled entry is that the real update's over there at timandmegan.babbage.tv. While Bronwyn went out to an open day at school this morning, I stayed in bed and redesigned their site. I hope you like it... (I hope they'll like it!)

This afternoon we went shopping for a 30th birthday present for Bronwyn. We're looking at getting her a nice dress watch, something that'll last her a long time, if not a lifetime. We went down to Old Bond Street in London, though the Lamborghini Diablo parked outside one of the stores we were looking in perhaps should have alerted us that we'd headed to the wrong part of town. Most expensive women's watch seen today: £27,950. Nice. To date we have refrained.

From there we headed down to the Thames, to see the free fireworks display that was celebrating the inauguration of the new Lord Mayor of London today. Unlike the Mayor of the City of London, the Lord Mayor is a figurehead position but it's always fun to have a bit of pomp and stare-omony. Due to a miscalculation we were a bridge further west on the Thames than would have been ideal. This meant we saw the fireworks somewhat in the distance, but on the other hand nicely framed by the London Eye.

We'd met New Zealand friends Salena and Steve at Westminster Tube station to see the fireworks, and afterwards brought them back out to ours. A roast dinner was waiting in the oven, a welcome thing to return home to on this cold November day. (Seven degrees, they reckoned.) Good to spend an evening catching up—the years do not diminish genuine friendship. Found my anecdote-telling somewhat quenched by Salena knowing many of the punchlines, due to having read this blog! (Hiya Salena!) An odd experience though: telling someone things you know you haven't already told them, yet feeling like the dreadful bore at the party who only knows the one joke! Good to end the evening praying to the God who binds us together, and who is calling all of us into the future...

Time for sleep. Only 11:12pm. We're doing well, by our recent standards. More tomorrow! (I onna roll.)