This morning I was once more at my exercise class. They are really putting me through it, requiring an increase in everything each week. This morning I could not find my purse to pay (the vast sum of £1), so I nipped out to the car to see if it had fallen out of my handbag, but no. The real bore was that I had planned to do a couple of things on my way home. I have been addressing Christmas cards for the nice tradespeople who get a monetary gift and I always give it in a Christmas card as I feel that it is a nicer way of doing things than just handing over money.
I have no doubt the recipients just want the money!
So I came straight home and found my purse hiding beside my chair. I then set off to the big garden centre (all right, it is called Dobbies - as I say only nice things about them, I don't see why they should remain nameless.) I found some cards quickly and had an idle look round (this is always a BIG MISTAKE) and bought one or two little things.
Last year I did not have a Christmas tree as I had really gone off my old fibre optic one - it showed its effect only in the dark and around here there is no dark with the lights on in the car park overnight; I also had trouble erecting and dismantling it and it was looking rather tatty. Instead I bought a basket of lights which I thought was an excellent substitute, but everyone hit out at me with cries of "bah, humbug". I have paid heed but been very modest in my purchase - it is a pre-lit 60cm high Christmas tree. I also bought a few small decorations for it.
Then we came to finding a table cover - I found a paper one which did not cost an arm and a leg (there were some nice linen ones, which did - I might have a look at them in the January sale.......
I then lugged them all home with a quick stop off at the Bank to withdraw some cash. I don't know where it all disappears to (and the shopping went on plastic).
I came home to find my vegetable box which included a pumpkin, two leeks, a celery, some Swiss chard, beautiful carrots with the bright green fronds still on and of course the usual potatoes and onions. The fruit consisted of 3 apples, 2 oranges, 2 bananas and a kiwi fruit.
Included with the bag was a rather nice sounding pumpkin recipe. I shall try it and report back.
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For years and years I insisted on a real tree, when the boys were young. Then when they'd left home I went artificial but I've never lived it down. This year we'll be in France for the very first time ever, so I'll probably do without.
my family have always had artificial christmas trees (even in Malaya) and I believe that my brother even has some of the decorations left over.
Our house has a very small living room and a tree would occupy a lot of space so SOH and I will have to discuss what we do for christmas decorations this year as I am very bah humbug about it, preferring instead to having just cards up.
ps - the pumpkin recipe sounds good, I look at them but never know what to do with them.
Hello Elaine
I hope you have more success with the pumpkin than I had.( Yours might turn into Cinderella's coach and then you can go to the Ball )I made a pumpkin lantern and being brought up not to be wastful tried my hand at Pumpkin Pie with the trimmings. It was greeted with cries of ,"Ugh" and "Horrible "and no one would eat it-even my long suffering husband. Perhaps I did something wrong.
One of the sweetest Christmas trees I ever had was when I was living in Nashville in a tiny apartment. I bought a tiny little tree (about two feet tall) and put it in an aluminum bucket filled with gravel. I decorated it with a set of tiny white lights, and it was as cheerful as it would have been if it was a full-sized tree. Maybe even moreso.
It's the holiday spirit that counts, not the size of your tree.
Bear and I always go around for a holiday "light drive" every year. We make up a ton of "best lights on the block" awards, tied to a candy cane with a bit of ribbon. Then we tie one on to the gate or door handle or tree branch of one house in every neighborhood we visit.
Not every award is given to the biggest or fanciest light display, mind you. If someone can only reach to put one string of lights on a shrub outside their apartment, that may win the award for the effort and the spirit it shows. Sometimes the tiniest displays are the ones that touch our hearts.
- M
I love the idea of your light drive and giving of awards especially to the ones who have made an effort rather than just the biggest and brightest (in fact these latter ones can sometimes be absolutely hideous.
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