Lilium auratum

I thought Australia was only 9 or 10 hours ahead of me, but for some reason they think it's Christmas already, and now all of mine have come at once. I only wanted one thing, and I got it yesterday!

So now I can do this:

Thank you Mum and Dad. Thank you Grant. I am going to have my first Christmas away from home, my first (fingers crossed) white Christmas, my first Russian Orthodox Christmas, and now my Baltic festivities can be captured in every little detail. You have made one little girl's Christmas pretty awesome already!

xx

Dear Mum

I bought you some flowers, Mum. They look lovely in my kitchen.

I don't think they'll last the 3 months and 1 day until you get here but by then I'll have saved enough for some new ones.

I miss all the weird and wonderful things we have that cannot be explained in a blog. Thanks for being there for me, all 16000kms away that you are. I still love that I can call you up on Skype and see you make stupid faces at me. Even though you're a bit pixelated, you still make me smile. I wish I could smell your Estee Lauder White Linen perfume the way I could when I was away on school camp and it hit me when I saw you again.

I promise I'm looking after myself. I don't walk the streets alone at night. I am eating my veggies and washing behind my ears. 

Love from your firstborn,

xx

Spring Blossom

Blue skies and 15 degrees.