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With a new year well and truly underway, first week of work past and all, I thought I'd better reflect on things. Nah, stuff that. I'm off to Australia on the 15th, jumping from the sub-zero to the over-30 temperatures of the West Coast – perhaps even 40! We'll see. While I'm there my 30th birthday will pass, in lieu of having some sort of third-life-crisis I think I'll just enjoy the heat and sunlight.

For the moment I've taken a few photos around Hitchin, our current home-town in England. Everyone's going on about the snow here in the UK, but while pretty it really isn't all that impressive. That said, it does successfully wreak havoc and distress. Bring on more snow I say! Except on Friday, we want to have a nice clear departure from Heathrow on Friday.

Sledding on Windmill Hill

Kids sledding down Windmill Hill above Hitchin town centre. Last week one of them was taken away in an ambulance after discovering that stopping prior to ramming park furniture is generally a good idea.

Kat at the SE stairs up Windmill Hill

Another shot of Windmill Hill, looking up the stairs from Hollow Lane.

Ransom's Recreating Ground

This is Ransom's Recreation Ground, a small park behind out street in Hitchin.

More than 4 years in the UK and this is probably the first "proper" winter we've had. I'd always imagined winters here were much more like this, but it turns out that snow in winter is quite rare in most of England. Though if you talk to people who're 60+ it's all "'twas faar colder an' snowy when I were a lad!" Perhaps it's coming back :)