This morning, before work, we popped in to Nationwide to finalise our mortgage - and everything was fine and dandy. We haven't got our survey back yet, so we're still waiting to be sure that our house isn't built on a rubbish tip or about to fall apart, but hopefully that'll be fine. Now we just need to get all the legal stuff done and we'll be the proud owners of a lovely 3 bed bungalow. :)

Work's trundling along - only 14 work days until Christmas! I'm really looking forward to having 17 solid days with no work - it's my 22nd week here and I'm definitely in need of a bit of a break. However, we're still no closer to working out what we're actually going to do over Christmas...