Woke up this morning to yet another grey wet day, so sent OH into the loft for decorations etc. Now sat in the lounge with a cup of tea and a mince pie while rain hammers on the windows, and it all looks very cosy. That's better ! Edited to add, when l replied to the poll, my "set day" is usually the Saturday closest to the 15th, but l was just so fed up of the gloom !
Love the ambiance the lights on the tree give. I relish bringing out my tree decorations and the whole thing reminds me of happy times with my Grandmothers and Mum.
I started putting ours up last Wednesday. Bought a lovely artificial tree and a free garland. It looks like the real thing. Had a box of decorations that i hadn't used for a few years, wondered what to do with them. I was pleased when i knew about the garland. this is on the landing the father Christmas on the right is new, he's 15 inches tall and stands up on his own. I'm not religious but still celebrate it. Think of it more like a winter solstice, even though it would have been on the 21st.
Surely our christmas can't be any worse than last year? Paramedic crew out for me at 10pm on 24th and Hubby, (not to be outdone ) tried to remove his thumb whilst chopping logs on the 25th.( I was still too poorly to get out of bed )
We used to have a tradition when we spent Dec/Jan and Feb in Goa that we'd take cold chicken tikka biriani in a cool bag and take a couple of bottles of Kingfisher to the beach and we'd sit under our brolly and tuck in around 3pm.
I send cards to my daughters, and Hubby gets a card. I transfer money into the girls' bank accounts before I go to bed on the 24th , Hubby buys what he wants, when he wants it 52 weeks of the year, so I don't buy him anything. For over 10 years I've been telling him NOT to buy me anything, but he always does. My girls don't buy me anything as neither has enough money to spare. I tell them " take the money you'd spend on my present and buy yourself a treat to the same value" Dec 25th means no more / no less to me than Nov 25th or Jan 25th. No tree, no lights and the cards usually sit in a pile on the sideboard, apart from those from special people. I'll be in the garden / polytunnels as I am every other day I'm at home.
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Edited to add, when l replied to the poll, my "set day" is usually the Saturday closest to the 15th, but l was just so fed up of the gloom !
Bought a lovely artificial tree and a free garland. It looks like the real thing.
Had a box of decorations that i hadn't used for a few years, wondered what to do with them. I was pleased when i knew about the garland.
I'm not religious but still celebrate it. Think of it more like a winter solstice, even though it would have been on the 21st.
We used to have a tradition when we spent Dec/Jan and Feb in Goa that we'd take cold chicken tikka biriani in a cool bag and take a couple of bottles of Kingfisher to the beach and we'd sit under our brolly and tuck in around 3pm.
I send cards to my daughters, and Hubby gets a card. I transfer money into the girls' bank accounts before I go to bed on the 24th , Hubby buys what he wants, when he wants it 52 weeks of the year, so I don't buy him anything. For over 10 years I've been telling him NOT to buy me anything, but he always does.
My girls don't buy me anything as neither has enough money to spare. I tell them " take the money you'd spend on my present and buy yourself a treat to the same value"
Dec 25th means no more / no less to me than Nov 25th or Jan 25th.
No tree, no lights and the cards usually sit in a pile on the sideboard, apart from those from special people.
I'll be in the garden / polytunnels as I am every other day I'm at home.
I didn't know you were from Greenock. x