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Every decoration has a memory attached to them and when we dress the tree they come flooding back… #Christmas???? #tree #decorations
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Our oldest Christmas decoration is 39 years old this year… #Christmas???? #angels #decorations
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Mary and Joseph look like they have the kind of perplexed and “what are we supposed to do with this now?” faces that I think all new parents probably have… #Christmas???? #advent #nativity
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I’ve had real #Christmas???? trees that have made less mess!
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After an hour and a half of #carolling at the #abingdonchristmasextravaganza I needed something too warm me up… #Christmas???? #hotchocolate
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It’s Christmas! @abingdonconcertband have played our Yuletide concert… let the festivities begin! #Christmas????
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Genesis of the Christmas cake… #stirupsunday #Christmas???? #adventiscoming
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#1HappyYear Day 233: Small niece with flaming pud… #christmas #100HappyDays
Continue readingChristmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a touch of magic. It would also be lacking without a festive trip to see something by Creation Theatre. After last year’s Aladinn, and before that A Christmas Carol, I was very excited. This year’s offering…
Continue readingI always knew that going to the Post Office on the Saturday before Christmas was going to involve queuing – lots of queuing – but I don’t think my brain had really processed just how long a queue would be…
Continue readingA bit more of a quiet day today. Well, that is until this afternoon. Whilst I can’t stand the repeated traipsing round the shops, doing panic-stricken Christmas shopping to get all the presents bought, favouring instead to do much by…
Continue readingA bit of a productive day today, cleaning out the animals and such, but I did get some good reading time in there too – that is – when I wasn’t staring at the most gorgeous of sunsets… After the…
Continue readingI never really think that Christmas has begun until I play some carols. Yes, we’ve been playing Christmas music at band since November but that is rehearsal for the concert next week and so doesn’t count. This morning Emma and…
Continue readingThis weekend has been one for hibernating, partly because of the weather which has been cold, and grey, and utterly wintery, but partly also because Emma has been working/on-call which dictates that we can’t venture very far. So I decided…
Continue readingI know it’s only November and Guy Fawkes is barely burnt on the ceremonial bonfires, but it’s true, Christmas is coming. I know this is true because tonight at band was a rehearsal full of the festive fun…
Continue readingAs night follows day, so today follows Twelfth Night. We weren't too bothered about the traditions of when decorations come as their dies seem to be a fair amount of difference of opinion as to whether it's the 5th or…
Continue readingThere is an undeniable confusion as to when Twelfth Night actually is – even Stephen Fry got it in a muddle on the Christmas episode of QI. So… It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the evening…
Continue readingOne of the joys of the post-Christmas and pre-New Year holidays is those long afternoons in the fading light, tucked up on the sofa with the Christmas tree across the room, reading… reading lots and lots. So, a roundup of…
Continue readingThere’s an article in today’s Guardian which seems to want to suggest the rise of traditional print book sales eBooks. It seems obvious to me that in the run up to Christmas that you will see more physical books sold…
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