Another cold morning 24f. I have been taking care of last minute details, and I am ready to go to the airport in just over 1 hour. Befor I know it I'll be in Manchester England, England as the song fro Hair goes. Will try to keep you up to date with English football while I am there.

New York seems to want to say goodbye with a cold hand. I leave for England tomorrow and this morning was a windy 20f ( wc 11f ) , it really felt cold. On my way home it was 24f ( wc14f ). There is bright sunshine so that when you are inside it seems like a nice day out there. Paid some bills to ensure that I have a phone etc when I get back.

It was my last full day at work this year, I have a few hours in the morning and that's it. Then off to England on saturday. We had goulash for lunch today and it was pretty tasty. The weather was mild, but you can see that there is a change coming. It's going to be cold tomorrow.

Surprise, surprise, Arsenal,Man U and Celtic join Chelsea and Liverpool in the knockout stages of the Champions League. Even though Celtic lost to Copenhagen. I am already making my bags ready for my trip to England in a few days. The weather was a little warmer today but there is still very strong wind. The winter in New York so far as been the winter of strong winds.

It's the last week of group stage matches in the champions League and Chelsea won to top their group with Barca winning to finish second in the same group. Liverpool lost in Turkey to Galatasaray but still topped their group. This morning the temp' was 29f and stayed cold all day.

Here is the latest Christmas Lights photo, this one is just a few blocks away from where I live. It really feels like Christmas is coming with temp's staying only just above freezing today, and expected to go below during the night.

Temp' was hovering just above freezing this morning when Utpal and I ran. The sun was shining however so it didn't seem so bad. We have had some really strong winds around here lately, and a tree came down onto the local tennis court, and a bunch of guys with chainsaws wnet to clean it uo this morning. Good work for this kind of day.

Today was an interesting day for a December 2nd, while the temperature was quite low ( 40's f ) , it was abright pleasant day. Arsenal, who have not been doing too well lately, beat Spurs 3-0 and moved up to 3rd in the premiership. They are still 16 points behind Man U who are at the top. Wolves beat Southend 1-0 and are back in 10th in the Championship. tonight a bunch of us got together to watch a classic Japanese film " Tampopo".

Well it's December 1st and it is a windy rainy day in New York. I wanted to take a nap but I figured I should make a post first. It also happens to be my 500th post on this blog so that is quite a milestone. So my blog post is about making a blog post, so there!

I don't think I mentioned it before but one of my friends from work went to see the new James Bond film, and he says it is really good. Even though it is a remake, he says it is very different than the other one. Oh! by the way Wolves managed another 1-1 draw the other night and have actually slipped down the league even more.

It's not a great photo, but I have been walkingpast this house on the way to work for the last couple of days, and yes folks the Christmas season has started here in New York. It can get quite colourful here at times and I will try to post a few more in the next week or so, before I go out of town.

In about 12 days time I will be looking at this scene for real in my sisters home town.

Everyone in my house has gone away on vacation, so I have the house to myself. Since it was a short day for me at work I took the opportunity to start my annual house clean up. This is one of the few chances I have when the house is empty. It is sort of my end of year spring cleaning.

This morning I ran on my own at 6am, the weather is very nice at the moment, and by the time I finished my run the sun was coming up on a beautiful day. This 4 day weekend has been great, but tomorrow it will be back to work, but only for 2 more weeks. The big game came and went and in the end it was Man U 1-1 Chelsea so nothing has changed at the top of the Premiership. For you cricket fans out there England are bravely getting beaten badly by the Australians. It's only a game!

As I often do at this time of the year, I was co-race director of the 2 mile race this morning. And what a beautiful morning it was. Small turnout though, but everyone seemed happy. Managed to get my own run in later in the day. Arsenal lost to Bolton in the Premiership which dampens their spirit a little. 1st plays second in the big game tomorrow.

Wolves had a friday night game against Sunderland tonight. They took the lead just before halftime, then gave up a goal in the 80th minute and the game ended 1-1. At least it is better then a loss, but they need to win a few more games and score a few more goals, if they want to make it back into the Premeirship. I had a pretty relaxing day the weather was better than yesterday though it didn't feel that much warmer. The weekend promises to be nice.

It's Thanksgiving a holiday here in America, but it's cold and rainy in New York. Being a vegetarian I will not be eating Turkey and all the trimmings as most Americans will do today, but I will probably go out somewhere with friends and enjoy a nice non meat Thanksgiving meal.

So Chelsea lost and Liverpool won in the Champions league, but both of them will go through to tha knockout stages. I have discovered a Japanese Anime called Inuyasha and have so far watched 7 episodes,it's about a Half Human/Half Demon.

Yes it's champions league time again, and the big result is Celtic beating Man U 1-0 to go top of their group. Arsenal came back from 1 down to beat Hamburg 3-1. Stafford Rangers who come from near where my sister lives, have made it into the second round of the FA cup, they are currently in the middle of the Conference a semi-proffesional team. So good for them.

Today was a strange day for me something came up at the last minute, and I spent the day making lots of phone calls and trying to catch up with some people. Some friends who had been visiting were leaving today and everything was a bit hectic. By the end of the day though all was sorted out and I could relax. That's life in the big city!