Right. Ladies & Gentlemen, We Have Candy Canes


NOW, thanks to some ingenuity and quick posting from our family in Pleasant Hill, it feels like Christmas. (THANK YOU, guys. We love you, and not just for this.)

It’s amazingly quiet in the city of Glasgow. For once, there isn’t head to tail traffic on the M8, and we’d say “not a creature was stirring,” but we’re afraid you might be slightly annoyed at that. (WE would be.) It’s surreal that it’s almost Christmas; we’ve gone out of our way to avoid anything that would shove it into our faces before we were ready, and now we feel a bit unprepared. We look forward to our trip to Edinburgh; expect lots of pictures because apparently they put on a Hogmanay celebration that beats them all (having never seen any, we’re sure we’ll be impressed), and we’ll be sure and keep you posted.

Were you dreaming of a white Christmas? We aren’t, but yesterday morning we woke to the ground frozen hard and white. It’s twenty-eight degrees at the moment, and if those thin clouds pull together, we’re sure they could come up with something… but they probably won’t. And we don’t feel too sorry, since another of the cherished little gifts we received today are glass icicles… we prefer those to the real ones, thank you!

The sky is clearing, and gorgeous lights are in the sky — though it is only four-thirty. Hope you’re having a wonderful time doing what you like best this Christmas Eve, and may you have a lovely Christmas Day as well!

We’re so grateful for all of your notes and cards and little gifts — from our friends in PH, from friends we’ve met through blogging, and the people we’ve met since we’ve arrived in this country. We hope that you know that we really appreciate you. Cheers!

– D & T

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