In the past I always prided myself on being really organised for Christmas. It helped that it was always a nice family day, and even though we never had a big family Christmas, it always had its traditions. But the older I get (and being married to a man who is a definite Bah Humbug about it, and has to work on it), I’ve slackened off. Christmas always seems to happen, but it would be nice to be a bit… Continue Reading “How to prepare for Christmas early”
Whenever we go to dinner or lunch at friends’ houses, the women usually bring along a dessert. Yes, there’s always pressure not to have your pudding the one that’s hardly been touched. Meringue is always one of the first to go. This cherry and chocolate meringue wreath is perfect for Christmas celebrations. Or it can be made in a traditional circle like a pavlova, or in log shape to make it a lighter alternative to a yule log. I love… Continue Reading “Cherry and chocolate meringue wreath”
I’m joining in Living Arrows again this year. It’s lovely to be able to look back and see all the photos I’ve taken of N over the past year, and see how much he’s changed. If you want to join in, it’s a lovely friendly community to take part in, you can find its home over at What the Red Head Said – click through the badge below. In between Christmas and New Year, I wanted to make use of… Continue Reading “Living Arrows 2017 week 1 – reflections”
N’s at that inbetween age where he’s getting a bit old for the pre-school type of theatre shows (or we’ve seen the ones we’d want to see), but isn’t old enough for full on theatre shows and musicals yet. Last year we decided that our local Mill arts centre’s Christmas showing was too old for him, but this year Cinderella and the Glass Slipper looked more likely. We were given tickets to go along to the show so we took… Continue Reading “Festive shows – Cinderella and the Lost Slipper”
I love Christmas tree light photos, and working through Emma Davies’ A Year With my Camera for this week meant trying out different shaped bokeh photography. Of course, N refused to be in my photos – he wouldn’t sit still anyway which didn’t help. So one of his bears helped out. I tried hearts and stars, although my free form stars weren’t great. I still like this photo – and it’s something to work on next year…maybe try and work… Continue Reading “My Sunday Photo – Christmas tree bokeh”
Year 1 and the Christmas nativity performance is over for another year. This year it was an alternative nativity – Lights Camel Action. What made it more fun was it being a Strictly Come Dancing themed show. N had been quite existed ahead of it, and got into Strictly Come Dancing. He could relate to the different characters and could tell me everyone’s roles in their play. N’s school do a nativity for reception, year 1 and year 2s. He… Continue Reading “Strictly Come Dancing Christmas nativity and morris dancing costume”
I’ve never been to Coventry Cathedral but recently we combined our love of music with Christmas and headed off there for The Snowman Tour concert. I’d seen it advertised a while back, and as N loves the Snowman and quite enjoyed the Paddington concert last year, I booked for us to go. I’d planned for it to be a good festive treat with us spending the afternoon in Coventry. I’d hoped to check out the transport museum that I’d been… Continue Reading “The Snowman and Nutcracker concert at Coventry Cathedral”
That’s Christmas term done and dusted at school. He’s had a great year so far – his maths is rocking as expected, I’m amazed how he’s applied himself to learning spellings, and his reading has blossomed. Even his writing is coming more freely and his confidence in his ability is much better than it was on starting in year 1. I was expecting N and his other year 1s to be moving up to Class 2 next term to join… Continue Reading “School days – christmas nativity play”
This year I’m really struggling to persuade N to come out with me. I guess most families go out all together, so if the OH came out then he’d be more willing. But this week the guys were turkey picking (ie plucking them) ready for Christmas orders. Usually N loves sitting in the box while the 3 or 4 of them pick the birds. But this time his dad said no because the box gets really dusty and full of… Continue Reading “A Waddesdon Manor Christmas festive visit”
This week’s Living Arrows isn’t the best technical photo, but the placement was just fab. It was half posed, half in the moment. A moment while we were decorating the tree with these enormous Christmas baubles.
