Flurries of snow, and temperatures down to minus 3. And I'm still in England! Well, I guess it will help me to acclimatise to the Russian winter, where temperatures are (according to the papers) yoyoing from minus 25 to minus 5 and back again. I seem to remember that happening last year.

Good news: got my flight tickets booked, for Friday afternoon. So I'm all set. I tell you what, my visa had better be ready on Thursday morning!

Not quite all set actually: need to go and buy some Marmite for Kostya. He has never had the stuff (not available in Obninsk! Funnily enough!), and, well, who am I to deny him such an experience?