After Christmas

I cannot believe that it is already the end of the year!?

Wow, we have just been wrapping Christmas gifts, oggling our friend's Mark special Christmas tie while in Haddington and now we are back in the work grind and this delicious cake is nothing but a distant memory!

Just like that much snow in Scotland (which I have managed to photograph before it all disappeared). Edinburgh was back to its normal cloudy, grey, windy self today. Just as if  *real* winter has never happened, everything was as it is suppose to be in Scotland at his time of the year - lads just in t-shirts were back in the streets with a vengeance (I think I saw at least 5 of them this afternoon).

Blast from the past

We had a fantastic Christmas in Haddington and we are now back in Edinburgh, finishing some things before the end of this year and even more duties arriving.

While in Haddington, Simon's son Lyova, dug out some old family photos and we have enjoyed an interesting glimpse in the past - do you recognise this handsome chap?  I could not help myself, I had to marry him!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I have managed to call almost all of you with greetings, my dear Friends, so now I just would like to wish all the ones that I have not managed to get in touch that I am thinking about you lot guys all that time! I hope you will have a great, quiet, cosy time with your beloved and your families.

Thank you Sejin for our beautiful gift and I have never received so exotic Xmas card before! Lots of love and let's catch up after Christmas!

Big hugs to my friends in Berlin - Adam & Dea and my dear friend Monica who though based in Berlin might be now with her family in the South. To Agata (and her family) and Marcin and Kasia and Lukasz in Krakow. I hope we will be able to arrange our next year schedules so that we will be able to meet.

Lots of love to my Polish friends Kasia + Joanka and Karolina and Magda with their families! See you hopefully in January, gals!

Meanwhile an impromptu Chritmas card from snowy Scotland:



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Warm up!

Snowbound

Scotland is still blocked by snow and courrier companies with the Postoffice in tow refused to take on more packages to be send before Christmas. Therefor some of you will not be able to get your Xmass greetings from us on time - I will add some New Year greetings as well, to keep the cards more appropraite especially when you receive them after Christmass...

Here are several images to give you an idea why it is actually difficult to get out of the house: shops scare you with their empty shelves as even big retailers are not getting their stock on time, buses are runnung even less reliably than ever, underneth the snow there is a black ice hiding - a Scottish weather invention which is basically a very thin layer of ice on the tarmac which you cannot see untill you actually slip on it dramatically, people who have never heard of winter tyres and are still driving, a runner on Meadows who jogged by barefoot in the snow (my first though was that somebody must have stolen his shoes! but then I spotted white cable of his iPod, so maybe just Shackelton was his idol), a hot chocolate that does not keep you hot for too long, a high heating bill, not being able to crawl out of bed in the morning, a threat of a photoshoot in the snow far away from home and with frozen models...

Missing for graphic designers

I was missing Paris again recently but this blog kept it at bay. A bit.

http://parisvsnyc.blogspot.com/

Winter - continuation!

Winter - part 2

Wow! Edinburgh looked today as if we all moved to Poland w/o travelling. I went out just after noon to catch up with my friend Simon (one of not many of my friends who were not snowed in or down with a cold) and ended up in a blizzard of a decade:

The time was approximately 1.30 pm but it was dark as if the night was about to fall! Cold wet wind was smacking one's face with falling snow and I had to wear my heavy winter boots (I call them 'walonki Puma's style') and my famously burned puffa winter coat (that I subsequently had to chop off at the bottom). And all that just for a 10 minutes walk to Peter's Yard. Of course it all stopped when I settled down over my ham soup at PY and sun came out again so Simon arrived all rosy from the cold not even knowing what he had missed while working at the library over his essay.