Today I made 2 mincemeat and pecan tarts and some apple and cranberry sauce; the veg and turkey are ready to go tomorrow, and the Christmas cake is now decorated.

I have been to church for the evening carol service and enjoyed a really good sing! I took pictures there of the decorations when they are lit and the main lights are out.


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We had the children here today. The weather was horrible - snow on the hills and heavy rain at our level - the path between the back of the house and the garden had formed a moat, so not a good idea to plan any outdoor activity. We all went to the Garden centre for brunch instead ( Read more... )

I was up early this morning, and in M&S doing the food shopping before 8am. Even then the car park was about 2/3 full, but I have most of the things I wanted, except fresh cranberries. I will look and see if the local shop has any tomorrow ( Read more... )

It is the Winter Solstice today. It has been so dark all day that there has not been a time when we didn't need the lights on indoors, and all the cars have had their headlights on all day. But there are lots of lights in windows, outside houses, and in town, so not as gloomy as it would have been otherwise ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the Nativity Service. I have spent this evening wrapping the presents for the Sunday School children, to go under the tree in church, and filling the plain paper gift bags with the small bags of cake, cookies and sweets to give to the people who help with Messy Church. I've done the ones for other people, too, so they are all packed ( Read more... )

I am just about managing to post each day this month. This morning I was visiting for coffee and mince-pies... the minister was having 'open house' all day. Her Christmas tree is beautiful, I wish I'd thought to take a picture. There were about half a dozen of us there over the morning - I expect there would have been similar numbers through the ( Read more... )

So the laptop is working fine and charging ok ( Read more... )

So - I am back on my good laptop. The problem was not as terminal as it appeared and it is charging again - they didn't even charge as it was nothing major and related to the previous time they had it - such nice young men! I have decided it might be best if I don't use it whilst it is charging, but unplug it to use and then plug it back in when ( Read more... )

Today I posted some more cards on my way to do my session in the little bookshop, and also bought the last couple of little presents for the Sunday School children, to go under their tree ( Read more... )

So today the NYM's mum and I had lunch together in the pub near NYK2's school, then left her car outside it and walked across to the school for the Years 6 & 7 Christmas play; The Stars Come Out For Christmas. With a cast including every child in the two school years it was a major extravaganza ( Read more... )