Rockin' around the Christmas tree

Yes, our Christmas tree is now up! We debated whether to get a real or plastic tree considering the eco-benefits of each. Eventually the real tree choice won, probably only because it was my job to go out and bring a tree home while Sara went out ice-skating at Tower Hill. Now all we have to do is open the presents... :-)

I paid £19 for this view

Another Tranmere away day with Matt last week. We went to Brentford which is the nearest League 1 ground to where I live. Griffin Park is quite famous among away fans for being the only football league ground to have a pub at every corner, although technically this isn't really correct as a couple of the pubs are opposite the relevant corner, but really, who cares? We felt duty-bound to try out a couple of the pubs which were OK but hardly the kind of places you would choose as your regular.

Griffin Park is a relic of the so called "good-old days" when football grounds were architectural disasters. Here's a pic I took. Note the charming pillar-blocking-my-view feature:


Final score was 1-1. Every game I go to now seems to finish 1-1!

A Weekend in Prague

We went to chilly Prague earlier this month for James and Almut's wedding. (congratulations guys!) The wedding was certainly the most international we've been to with English, German and Czech all used and translated accordingly- at times it reminded us a little of the Eurovision Song Contest!

We decided to catch a late Sunday flight back from Prague so that we could see a little of the city before we left. We walked around the old town and nosied around the Christmas fair in the town sqaure. In Where's Wally style, can you spot Sara somewhere below in the fair? ;-)

Our decision to get a later flight cost us dear though. Scheduled to take off 7.45pm we didn't eventually leave until nearly 11pm...eventually getting back home at 2.30am. Urgh.