January is almost done

Brrrrrrrr. It is VERY cold in BAltimore this morning, so cold that the water on the harbo(U)r is partially frozen. You can just about see it in the pic. It has been a mild January though, so I guess it is due. Possibility of minor snow this weekend!
Before I get ahead of myself, first up can I say how great it was to see everyone over Christmas. We had a great trip home, and saw a lot of a lot of people, so that was great. I had a fun and productive fortnight's work in Cardiff (one paper of results submitted yesterday) and that made it feel less like taking advantage to have a good long relax over Christmas. We had a white Christmas (woop), I made Thomas a snowman (for non English natives - 'I made a snowman for Thomas' - the alternative would be too cold), and we escaped in JAnuary just before the heaviest snow since the ice age. In other cold-related news, this weekend is the polar bear plunge in the Chesapeake, which I might get sponsored for next year. Amazing.
So what's going on in 2010? Mel's parents are visiting in March at Cherry Blossom time, Mark Potter and gf Charlotte are coming in July and I think my folks are coming in the autumn. Hopefully we'll get a car too. But maybe not that one.
These pics were taken on my freezing walk to a bus this morning. Brrrrrr.