Christmas Trees
I started this post about 8am this morning! I didn't get it finished in time to post it before I went out to do a day in the wee bookshop - so it is even later than it was going to be!
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I said I would post some pictures of the decorations in the house yesterday. But I woke early (around 6.30am) and went into town around 8am when it was still night-time outside, to shop in M&S and Waterstones. By the time I had finished in M&S it was around 8.45am and the first hints of pink could be seen over the sea. I called at the post office on the way home - I'm afraid most cards will be late, and I forgot to mark off on my list the ones that went into the first batch, last week, and so some people might end up with 2 - and apologies for anyone who I miss.
It was actually day light by the time I got home around 9.45am!
You would think this would have given me a lot of extra time to post, but after coffee, and putting away the shopping, I began baking biscuits (cookies not scones) and this, along with decorating some of them, took quite a lot of the day!
The plan was to get all my pictures together and post them during the evening. But - I had been up since 6.30 and was really too drowsy to sort it all out!
So here, a day late, some pictures of the house, including the black tree!
I genuinely have had friends visit who say 'I thought you said your tree was black?' They see it as green because they expect it to be green!
The old, and not so old, favourites are all on there;
A meerkat in a Christmas jumper, a felted bird with mistletoe;
A seal in a santa hat, and an equally festive basking shark;
And Archbishop Sentamu, a ninjabread man, a member of the faculty of the Unseen university, a donkey - and an Icelandic bauble with one of the Icelandic Yule lads on it...
Oh - and a Stocking of Holding - all D&D parties need this for the Festive Season!
In the conservatory I have put up the small tree;
Which has its own set of decorations -
This is the first thing Charlotte, aka NYK2 knitted -
There are small fairies amongst the branches -
A shepherd from wiseheart;
A tiny Nativity;
There's a sheep, and an angel under the tree -
And, also under the tree as always, the Krakow Nativity, made from scraps of card and foil, that D-d bought when she visited Krakow in 2007 -
And, after a visit from a neighbour half-way through posting the pictures, and having our tea, I have finally got this ready to post!!
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I said I would post some pictures of the decorations in the house yesterday. But I woke early (around 6.30am) and went into town around 8am when it was still night-time outside, to shop in M&S and Waterstones. By the time I had finished in M&S it was around 8.45am and the first hints of pink could be seen over the sea. I called at the post office on the way home - I'm afraid most cards will be late, and I forgot to mark off on my list the ones that went into the first batch, last week, and so some people might end up with 2 - and apologies for anyone who I miss.
It was actually day light by the time I got home around 9.45am!
You would think this would have given me a lot of extra time to post, but after coffee, and putting away the shopping, I began baking biscuits (cookies not scones) and this, along with decorating some of them, took quite a lot of the day!
The plan was to get all my pictures together and post them during the evening. But - I had been up since 6.30 and was really too drowsy to sort it all out!
So here, a day late, some pictures of the house, including the black tree!
I genuinely have had friends visit who say 'I thought you said your tree was black?' They see it as green because they expect it to be green!
The old, and not so old, favourites are all on there;
A meerkat in a Christmas jumper, a felted bird with mistletoe;
A seal in a santa hat, and an equally festive basking shark;
And Archbishop Sentamu, a ninjabread man, a member of the faculty of the Unseen university, a donkey - and an Icelandic bauble with one of the Icelandic Yule lads on it...
Oh - and a Stocking of Holding - all D&D parties need this for the Festive Season!
In the conservatory I have put up the small tree;
Which has its own set of decorations -
This is the first thing Charlotte, aka NYK2 knitted -
There are small fairies amongst the branches -
A shepherd from wiseheart;
A tiny Nativity;
There's a sheep, and an angel under the tree -
And, also under the tree as always, the Krakow Nativity, made from scraps of card and foil, that D-d bought when she visited Krakow in 2007 -
And, after a visit from a neighbour half-way through posting the pictures, and having our tea, I have finally got this ready to post!!