What have I been doing?

It has been a quiet 2 weeks on this blog. What have I been doing since welcoming the new Mrs Goh to our family? In fact, this photo now feels like a long time ago when it's only barely 2 weeks!

Well after a whirlwind 6 day trip back home, K and I found ourselves back in cold autumny London with more fallen yellow leaves on the ground. The air in the morning is now cold and crisp, and sometimes on the way to work, I can see my breath due to the cold air. Initially it was raining quite a bit too, so you can imagine it's quite sad and gloomy. Oh the day is much shorter too. I can see the sunset at about 4pm. But then I gotta remind myself that actually I do consider autumn being my favourite season! Well, my perceived "most romantic" season with the weather starting to turn cold, and seeing the leaves turning brown and yellow... and out come the jackets and boots. Just like in the movies :) And of course the best thing is, you start hearing Christmas jingles on TV adverts, and seeing the supermarket aisles filling up with all things Christmassy, wow it's coming to my 5th Christmas here in Europe. How time has flown past. How God has blessed me immensely beyond what I ever thought or dreamt. Hallelujah :)

So my brother and his wife are here in Europe on honeymoon for 3 weeks. How nice, 3 weeks of no work! They will arrive in London this coming Saturday, spending some time with me, before heading home to sunny Singapore. Funny how they are craving so much for Chinese food, they made me promise not to buy any bread for them for breakfast coz they have been having way too much bread and pasta. lol ok so being the nice sister that I am, I told him I will bring them to the yummy roast duck restaurant in Chinatown this Saturday when they arrive. I could feel him salivating over whatsapp, that is how serious it is.

Should be a great weekend ahead (secretly I always get excited whenever I have the roast duck too!).

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