Day Nineteen: Today’s photo prompt is wrapping, so I decided to take a picture of the presents I have wrapped up for David. We are undecided whether to get a ‘big’ present each this year. I personally don’t need anything special but have been collecting a few small gifts for David to open on the big day!
Christmas presents
How’s your Christmas present shopping going?
Thanks for reading,
Christine x
Stocking
Day Eighteen: For today’s photo prompt of stocking/s I chose a picture of Artie’s Christmas stocking. It’s all ready beside the fireplace awaiting Santa Paws’s arrival. 🙂
Have you got your fur babies any Christmas stockings?
Thanks for reading,
Christine x
I have been wanting to do a photo an hour challenge for some time, but I kept missing the dates! Finally, with some for-planning, and with the help of Sharon from Sunshine and Celandines, I have manage to partake in this months challenge. 🙂
Photo and Hour – 17th December 2016.
7-8am: Today, David and I had a loooong day ahead! It started at 7am when I got up for breakfast and a coffee before getting ready to go grocery shopping.
8-9am and 9-10am: The hours of shopping started in earnest. We headed towards Asda with my Mum in tow, where they have a tree with a countdown of the number of sleeps to Christmas Day.
10-11am and 11-12pm: With still a few presents to buy David and I headed towards Speke. We first popped into Taskers and had a gander around their Christmas displays, before heading towards New Mersey Shopping Park.
12-13pm: We didn’t come back with any presents but we did managed to purchase a wreath for the front door.
13-14pm: We spent the afternoon cleaning and getting the house ready for family visiting later that evening. David was cooking his curry again! But we managed to give Artie a treat from his Advent Calendar in between.
14-15pm and 15-16pm: While I spent some time dressing the dining table, a job I always love! David adorned the front door with the new Christmas wreath, (I think it looks good)!
16-17pm: I went with David as we drove to pick his Mum and Dad up. We passed a house ablaze with festive lights, they even had a Winnie the Pooh!
17-18pm: Once David’s brother, nephew and sister-in-law had arrived, we all gathered around the dining table to enjoy David’s cooking!
18-19pm: After tea and cake, we tasted gingerbread men made by David’s nephew.
19-20pm: An extra hour!
Once family had left and all the dishes had been washed, it was time for Artie’s dinner. I just had to share this photo of Artie being impatient with David as he prepared his tasty meal!
So there you have it! 12 hours of my day. It has been a hectic one! I now sit quietly writing this post before I head up to bed.
Have you been participating in today’s photo an hour? Let me know in the comments below how you have been filling your day!
Thanks for reading, Christine x
I thought I would participate in another Sunday Sevens, devised by Natalie at Threads and bobbins.
Christmas decorations
David and I have just come back from a visit to Grosvenor Garden Centre. While buying some bird ornaments for my little three foot Christmas tree! (I am so excited for the season!) David and I had fun making a wish and ‘drinking’ from a huge coffee cup!
I also bought a bird feeder in the shape of a poppy (a 50p donation went to the Royal British Legion) and placed it in the yarden!
I am still looking for signs of Autumn, and while walking to get the bus to work, I snapped this picture of a leafy coloured pathway.
While grocery shopping yesterday I tried on some winter hats. I liked this cow hat and scarf!
The week began in celebratory mode. I dressed up as the devil for Halloween and I turned 40! (:o) I got lots of lovely cards, presents and well wishes.
David kindly gave me money to buy a new phone. (My old one is three years old and so slow!) So, I opted for a Samsung Galaxy S6 due to the camera quality! I can’t wait to use it!
David and I had the Monday off work. So we spent the day shopping, eating gingerbread and going to the cinema. We went to see Inferno, the third Prof. Langdon film in the series of Dan Brown adaptations. It wasn’t as strong a story as The Da Vinci Code but we enjoyed it none the less. Later back home, even Artie seemed to enjoy the left over popcorn! :p
Overall it hasn’t been a bad week. With the turning back of the clocks last Sunday it seems that the weather has grown colder too. 😦
Have you been to the cinema recently? Have you started shopping for Christmas?
Thanks for reading,
Christine x
Christmas 2014 for me started in mid November when I sat writing my Christmas cards while David played console games with his friends in the living room downstairs.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been this excited and really looked forward to Christmas. Perhaps it’s because I am in my own home? Or that I am in a better place, emotionally and mentally? Either way come the 1st December I put up my new (muchly contested) Christmas tree.
Christmas Tree
In the weeks following, I busied myself making the obligatory mince pies and Christmas cakes, of which I made 40 individual ones!
Mini Christmas Cakes
Since the middle of December, I’ve been listening to Christmas carols and songs. I remember as a child, listening out for Father Christmas’s float as it passed our road, and of the carol singers who came knocking at our door. It’s a shame they don’t visit any more.
Whilst enjoying the festive music, I made a playlist, with such tracks as:
1. A Christmas Overture (Hess.)
2. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (Andy Williams)
3. Sleigh Ride (Anderson)
4. The Snowman Suite (Blake)
5. A Christmas Festival (Anderson)
Artie will be witnessing his first Christmas with us. He has had an Advent calendar with chocolate catnip treats daily and has a stocking full of toys from Santa Paws!
Santa Paws’s stocking
With Christmas Eve upon us I am more excitable than ever. Christmas day is an anticlimax in contrast to the eve when my child self comes to the fore, all excited and nervous, hoping to hear the pitter patter of Rudolf’s feet on the roof!
Christmas lunch will be a concoction of Quorn roast and vegetables for me and a gammon joint for David.
Merry Christmas!
Christine, David and Artie! x
Yesterday, after recovering from a stomach bug I believe I got from visiting my brother Stephen and my nephews, Nathan and Aaron. Yes, Nathan I blame you for coming down with the cramps! 😦 lol. I saw a wondrous sight at my fat ball feeder! There he was (or she), Mr. Dunnock, round and plump! He was eating from the fat balls and then hopped about looking for nyjer seed dropped by the Goldfinches. I was overjoyed to see him, as I have not seen him/her for months. I felt like I had been forsaken!
It is a blessing that Mr. Dunnock is still visiting my back yard after I have been rather neglectful of late. I have been trying to reduce the amount of seed I am buying for the wild birds but also trying to keep them happy. It is very difficult to please all!
I believe the Goldfinches have reduced their numbers since the food has been reduced. There was a lone Blue Tit on my peanuts today and Mum said that he was bold as brass and sat singing at her in the tree! Well he has been here from day one! 😀 There were seven Starlings at the fat balls and the same amount of Pigeons, so hopefully the pesky Pigeons have got the message and have gone elsewhere for food!
I have slowly been buying Christmas presents for all, whether they will all arrive in time, is anyone’s guess, but at least it is some kind of action during the morose feeling I am under at present. Let’s hope it passes. 🙂
Christine Lucas 