Candles Cake Goose

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23 December 2013 at 09:26

All the cards are strung up, candles on mantlepiece, foil on chimney breast behind them to protect paint from smoke (and give pretty reflections), even got some of the ironing done, Ferretfingers off to the Day Centre, Fester and I doing some last minute shopping and hope to meet up with friends for coffee in the Grainger Market.

On the down side the family cold seems to have finally found me.

23 December 2015 at 09:11

Ferretfingers and I (but mostly him) decorated the tree yesterday afternoon/evening.   

We’ve accumulated so many decorations over the years you can hardly see any tree.

The cake is iced.

Today I shall be wrapping and ironing and trying to bring some tiny element of tidyness to the living room (don’t hold out much hope for the last one).   

Anyone who wishes to interrupt me in these challenges will be welcomed with coffee/tea (other beverages are available) and biscuits.

23 December 2016 at 09:32

Today we get the goose.

Thunderthighs helped me tinsel up the ceiling of the back room yesterday – with Teddycat desperate to catch and kill the shiny snakes.

Ferretfingers’s tinselled the tree.

There is foil on the chimney breast and 24 candles on the mantlepiece.

The cake waits to be iced and I’ve given up on the ironing mountain.

Bess Cavalier  Best thing to do with the ironing pile. I've got ironing outstanding from summer 2015! I obviously have too many clothes.

Bentonbag  You can never have too many clothes - just not enough occasions.

Ferretfingers is helping by tearing up any t-shirt he's wearing that has a hole in it. We had half a dozen packets of Sainsbury's white cotton ts, and a drawer or two full of the same, which he inherited from his Uncle Steve in 2012 and they're beginning to wear out. Not bad seeing as he wears a clean one nearly every day - provided I catch it and dispatch it to the laundry basket when he takes it off.