Snow in London

London is beautiful – what with its historical buildings, cobblestone streets, English gardens, and beautifully-manicured parks, it’s a very aesthetically-pleasing city to live in, but it’s easy to forget… until it snows. It snowed this weekend, the first time since Christmas ’10, accenting the city and inspiring imaginings of what winter in Dickensian England looked like. Rather than stay in, we spent most of the weekend socialising with some of my favourite girlfriends. Friday night CC cooked us a delicious meal (pasta with pesto, pine nuts, courgettes; a delicious chocolate cake a la mode for desert), Saturday evening we congratulated EN on her recent promotion at Sanctum Soho Hotel before dining at Momo’s restaurant (olives, baked aubergine, veggie tagine) and this afternoon we met up with PM at a very appropriately winter venue, the Nordic Bakery on Golden Square. Overall, it was an unexpectedly active weekend in snowy London.