Just because I haven't mentioned the building work lately doesn't mean it isn't still continuing -- we are now into month 3 of, hopefully, five. We now have most of a roof over the new-built area -- and some of the more knackered bits of the old roof have also been fixed in the meantime. The photos are, as ever, still here, though I have some more roof-related ones from this past weekend that I still need to put up there. Other than the roof, we have now ordered the garage door, got a quote for air-conditioning (must place that order sometime soon), and are still in deep discussions over the kitchen units, though I have decided on all the appliances I want. Needless to say, my natural talent for choosing the most expensive option in any given case is still in operation.
Last Saturday was

Dinner was at Belgos in central London, which was pleasant enough if a bit slow on the service front (well, Saturday night near Christmas, party of 17, I wasn't entirely surprised). The staff were willing to provide me with several large chunks of Stilton as dessert, which was appreciated since all of the set-menu dessert options were Right Out (much too sweet). We staggered onto the Tube and managed to get a cab at Morden without too much hanging around... phew.
On the Saturday before that, we first visited the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the V&A, and then stopped into various museum shops in search of Christmas presents, before making a fairly brief visit to Dragonmeet. The exhibition had lots of very interesting pages from da Vinci's notebooks, although those pages are quite small and thus one has to get close to them to examine them properly -- this means that you wind up shuffling along at a snail's pace behind the people who are determined to listen to everything on their audioguides relating to that page. Ah well, I have the exhibition book and will peruse it at my leisure.
Dragonmeet was OK; we managed to get some (more) Dwarven Forge stuff for
Um, what else.
L's birthday party was good fun as always, unless you were
Maximum number of Amazon parcels delivered in a single day so far this Christmas ordering season: five.