December 2005

Rain rain rain…no snow, just plain british rain…dull as always for the festive season, which is normal here…Two days with no listening to my music indicate that I must’ve been seriously sick…sick as in "stuffed nose and hedgehog curled into a ball inside your throat", sick as in "waste your day in bed"…oh the joys […]

Once again my parents informed us that, apparently, there is snow everywhere in England. Sometimes I wonder if I live in the same place, all the news reported. Apart from white stuff from yesterday, the grass was green and the skies were blue here today…maybe it is a “black hole”, where I am? Or rather

Do you know that Russians are probably the only ones who get to celebrate winter seasonal holidays more times then anyone else ?! The history goes back to 1500-something years, when the Gregorian calendar has been introduced to Europe. Orthodox Russia was still using older Julian calendar, up until the Revolution of 1917, when the