It starts off with a small meander!  Christmas things start to appear in the shops, you get a few emails and a few Christmas adverts.  Then as each day/week goes by it gets a little more until now, the week before Christmas, and everything and everyone is in full Gallop to Christmas Day next Monday!!!!!

I popped into the supermarket yesterday for a few bits and some fresh veg and fruit and it was like it was Christmas Eve!  I wanted to shout “people there is almost another week to go before the day!  Get a grip!” but no they were banging trolleys and pushing people out of the way to get to things.  I escaped quickly with my bag of fruit and veg!

I forgot the other day to show you our outside lights.  They do brighten the place up when it is dark and grey, which it has been most of the days.

The Daily Telegraph did an article about one of their Reporters helping The Savoy Hotel in London do their Christmas decorating which is done over the course of one night!  As you can imagine it is big and over the top.  They then asked for readers to submit pictures of their decorations.  I submitted quite a few and they picked these two to show in their article.  The above one is a decoration from my Grandmother’s tree and is over 100 years old and quite fragile.  If you follow my blog you will have seen him before.  Below is an ornament that Eldest made at Playschool, which comes out every year, and is now twenty five years old. 

I am ready for Christmas.  Just need to marzipan and ice the Christmas cake and do the Chocolate Log and then it is all done, bar cooking Christmas Dinner of course!  Will got quite a bit prepared on Christmas Eve so I can spend time with everyone on Christmas Day.

I do hope you lovely lot are ready for Christmas.  Tomorrow I have a few errands to run and then get home jobs done and Friday we are picking up the Christmas bird, we have chicken as none of my lot are fond of turkey, and the other bits of food shopping.  Saturday and Sunday would you believe we have nothing on!  Although, of course, there are always jobs that can be done!

Hugs & Love, Susie xx