christmas!

Surprisingly excited by Christmas this year, although still find it early for the decorations to be up in Oxford and Regent Streets. Trying not to go on about the weather, but the unlit decs - sponsored by marmite - are a symphony in monochrome with the sky.

grey grey grey

I knew I would find English weather the hardest thing to get used to, now I am back. Another completely monochrome grey sky all day, with that milky light that makes you feel your eyesight is going.

Oh, and of course, matching fine drizzle. (There should be another word besides drizzle for this kind of rain; so fine as to be almost non-existent and yet penetratingly wet. A friend says that in Turkey they call it fool's sprinkler...)

autumnal

Have been trying to catch something about English autumn in the city in a single photograph; that simultaneously warm and chilly damp, the bonfire misty smell of the air, the watery quality of light, the browning and reddening, and the increasing monochrome skies. Really missed autumn when I was away; I have been schluffing through the dry leaves and polishing conkers on my sleeve like a small and happy child.