Yes it’s Friday and usually that is a day to celebrate at the end of no doubt busy weeks for all but at this time of year it is a worry as we are rushing so quickly up to Christmas!!  I could really do with an extra week in December this year or a few more hours in each day!!!!

Eldest was at home for dinner last night and it was just like old times!  It was a lovely evening.  This morning I have been getting some jobs finished and then will be out running errands and getting all my Christmas cards off.

Here are the presents all wrapped and bagged and waiting to be delivered and also for the tree to go up so they can go under it!

These gifts are the ones which I have to deliver to Friends and Family over the next few days.

This red one has Treacle’s presents in!

Treacle was at the Spa yesterday and has been trimmed and washed, it was the wash she actually needed, so she does not look that different and they also left her with a bit more hair as it is now Winter.

She is all fluffy and smells SO much better!!!  Although it won’t take her too long before she is mucky again!!!!

Busy and very Christmassy weekend ahead and I will have lots of pictures to show you next week. 

Have a wonderful Winter/Christmas weekend you lovely lot, whatever you are up to.

Hugs, Susie xx

Well I am in a Christmas mood even if everyone else isn’t!  I went grocery shopping today and everyone seemed to be in a bad mood!!!!  Treacle has been to the Spa and looks and smells so much better!!!!!  I will show you some pictures tomorrow.

As it is #TBT here is one of the Boys when they were younger at Christmas time and one from when they were older.

The above was at Great Central Railway visiting Santa in 2005. Eldest was 10 and youngest was 6.

Ten years later in 2015 and Eldest was 20 and Youngest 16.  What a difference a decade makes!!!!

I do miss them in the first photograph!!!!!  Today has also been house jobs day and some work fitted in too and tonight we have Eldest here for dinner and sorting out presents!!!  Tomorrow I have some errands to run in the morning and then DH and I have a lovely weekend of Christmas things to do and I will show you pictures next week.

Happy Thursday everyone.

Hugs, Susie xx

Been busy with getting things ready for Christmas and the first big job is all the baking!!!  Mince pies, which are pastry cases with dried fruit in mixed with some brandy; Christmas cookies, oats with cranberries and white chocolate; cheesy stars and sausage rolls.

The first of a lot of shortcrust pastry rolled out and ready for cutting.

First batch of mince pies cooling.

Sausage rolls and cheesy stars.

Christmas cookies.

I keep some out in tins but the rest are stored in clip boxes in the freezer and I get some out as and when and defrost them. That should keep them going up to and over Christmas!  Although I have had a request from Youngest for mince pies and cookies to take into work on the last day!!  So I will be baking again.

After I popped out to run some errands this morning after working, I then sat this afternoon and wrote all the Christmas cards, all 101!!!  Some are hand deliver, some are post, some are Scout post and some are air mail, hence the separate piles.  I will be getting these off this week. 

The presents are all wrapped now and I will be getting those delivered soon too!

This weekend DH and I have a lovely Christmasy weekend to look forward to and no announcing at any events swimming or otherwise!!!!  I will not tell you about it just yet but will show you all with pictures next week!!!  We are also aiming to get our home decorated at the weekend too.

I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well.

Christmasy Hugs, Susie xx