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CHRISTMAS HAS LANDED!


We bought our outside tree yesterday, £11.00 from Homebase for a five footer! Chuffed with that. The smell in the car on the way home was exquisite and somehow relaxed me so much.  My dream is to one day live in a house constructed mainly of wood with hopefully a permanent, similar smell.

Today, Mr got started on  'decking the halls'.  He absolutely loves doing this and is much better at it than me.  If he had his way, he would Griswold the exterior of our house.

Tour the home in the movie, Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase
The Griswold's illuminations

I'm much more a 'little is more' kind of girl.


When it comes to the inside tree, it's artificial, sadly.  We used to do the real tree thing years ago, but once we started rescuing dogs, it just didn't work. They seem less interested in artificial trees, or perhaps that's just our pooches. 

We have some re-arranging to do in the Dining Room, before we can put up our winter tree, so that will happen in the coming week, plus there's another tree to go up in the back garden. It's tree madness here, I tell you!

The little feather angel was made by my gorgeous girl when she was in year 3 of primary school. It's one of two she made and they always go on the tree.


We listened to Nat King Cole whilst decorating the tree. Funny thing is, I was going to buy Gregory Porter's 'Nat King Cole and me' and decided to sample the tracks on Amazon. His voice was perfect, but  I thought I'd  listen to the man himself, Nat King Cole and was sold.  Gregory Porter was over a tenner for twelve tracks, Nat King Cole 'Unforgettable' has twenty tracks for three pounds in Asda. A no brainer really.  I seem drawn to old crooners these days (good grief, I'm turning into my Grandma Maud!)


I usually have my first snowball with a maraschino cherry or two, when decorating the tree. You might think that's cheesy, but I think it's retro and I'm sticking to that.

Took this while all it's little lights were flashing!

I'll be girding my loins for another festooning tomorrow!

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