Living in London

Today we were up early (relatively speaking) and headed to the Borough Market near the Southwark Cathedral to pick up our Christmas snacks - cheese from local and Spanish dairies, fabulous local bread and meat pies, clementine oranges (they call them satsuma here), dried berries, and, because this won’t be enough calories, a beautiful buche de noel for dessert.

It is a blustery Christmas eve day, and we are hoping a little snow blows down from the Artic to complete our first Christmas in London (bookmakers are putting the odds at 9 to 4 that we will not see snow in this southeast corner of the country).

We are now snuggled in, waiting for Santa and are toasting this holiday season with a glass of Hollick wine.