2008 was something of a year.  Heaps happened – I passed round two of my exams ( I blame Little Miss Moi’s pregnancy-induced absence (abstention?) not distracting me) and best of all MDF became MDH – yes he made an honest woman out of me, we bought a house (not in Kiev), we took a trip down under, I learnt bribery and I gave up driving in Kiev.  What else?  That’s enough for now. 

Somehow my blogging mojo went out the window in 2008 and I now feel the need to smarten up my act.  Here’s a picture:

 

This is the view from our living room window right now.  That snow drift is menacing the power cable, but as we have limited heating (unless you’ve been living in a hole you’ll know why), why not screw up the electricity too?  Candles are romantic. 

See the barbeque in the bottom right corner?  A reminder of summer months gone past. We discovered we could hang out the window and barbeque to our heart’s content without having to leave our flat.  Folk (expats) say you have to be happy in your flat to survive this city as you’ll be spending a fair amount of time in it.

 That barbeque will come in handy when we have to set fire to our furniture to keep our skinny asses warm.