The Spooks of London Bridge

While I recognise that I may be a few weeks behind, I'm taking the first opportunity sans guests to sit down and describe the whirlwind that has been our lives to date.

The second weekend home from Canada was Halloween and we got together with Danielle to go out in scary style - as they do here in London (Syd dolled up as a creepy spider lord/lord death, I was a nearly-dead spider widow and D was an undead vampiress). We picked our costumes up at Fortinos (of all places) in Canada and when people saw us they thought we had gone 'all out'.
We went out to a Halloween pub event near London Bridge, the same fancy dress party event that Syd and Nyla and I did last year. When we first got there we felt overdressed as people in the UK still tend to do Halloween half-assed. One guy was walking around with a plastic bag on his head as a costume - puh-lease! When more people showed up within the hour we felt more at ease with all the other zombies, vampires and dead pirates.
We were actually quite impressed with one guy who dressed as a science experiment gone wrong - he was half werewolf half human - and used real theatrical hair to make the effect! I was quite impressed, but wouldn't want to be him later trying to remove all that glued on hair - ouch!
After Halloween we had some friends - Ami & Danny - come to stay with us for 2 weeks. They had their first European vacation and managed to fit in London, Paris and Prague! More to follow on that later.