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Some festive season questions going around today. A bit early.
1. Have you started decorating for holidays yet or are you going to skip it this year?
Neither. We will put up decorations, but not for ages. Not in November. An Advent calendar (Body Shop this year) at the start of December. We have a real tree, a small one in a pot, which lives outside most of the year, and I won't bring that in until a few days before Christmas, so the other decorations will go up at the same time.
2. Will your gift buying be more local or online this year because of restrictions?
I'm trying to shop local, but also there are campaigns to shop at smaller businesses online, particularly regional or rural ones that are missing tourists, so I'll do a little shopping there too.
3. Will you be doing something ‘extra’ to try and give this year’s celebration a bit more sparkle?
No.
Oh well, I bought a bejewelled reindeer headband the other day. I'll wear that on Zoom meetings in late December. It's surprisingly heavy, so I won't be wearing it all day.
4. No parties this year, but how are you reaching out to family and friends to wish them well?
We might be allowed larger gatherings by then; announcements about relaxing our lockdown restrictions are due tomorrow. Even without that, we're allowed to go to restaurants and to gather outdoors. And phone calls, I suppose.
The last few years, my mother and I have had Christmas Day with my great-aunt on her farm. It's quite a big gathering of her family and assorted cousins, probably more than the relaxed restrictions will allow, so I suspect we will have a small Christmas at home and maybe do a visit on another day.
5. Do you believe in Krampus?
Never heard of him.
1. Have you started decorating for holidays yet or are you going to skip it this year?
Neither. We will put up decorations, but not for ages. Not in November. An Advent calendar (Body Shop this year) at the start of December. We have a real tree, a small one in a pot, which lives outside most of the year, and I won't bring that in until a few days before Christmas, so the other decorations will go up at the same time.
2. Will your gift buying be more local or online this year because of restrictions?
I'm trying to shop local, but also there are campaigns to shop at smaller businesses online, particularly regional or rural ones that are missing tourists, so I'll do a little shopping there too.
3. Will you be doing something ‘extra’ to try and give this year’s celebration a bit more sparkle?
No.
Oh well, I bought a bejewelled reindeer headband the other day. I'll wear that on Zoom meetings in late December. It's surprisingly heavy, so I won't be wearing it all day.
4. No parties this year, but how are you reaching out to family and friends to wish them well?
We might be allowed larger gatherings by then; announcements about relaxing our lockdown restrictions are due tomorrow. Even without that, we're allowed to go to restaurants and to gather outdoors. And phone calls, I suppose.
The last few years, my mother and I have had Christmas Day with my great-aunt on her farm. It's quite a big gathering of her family and assorted cousins, probably more than the relaxed restrictions will allow, so I suspect we will have a small Christmas at home and maybe do a visit on another day.
5. Do you believe in Krampus?
Never heard of him.