Christmas Decorations



A post on one of my favourites blogs (The Misadventures of Widowhood) reminded me that Christmas is just around the corner. It has, just like every year, crept up on me and here I sit with not a card written, present wrapped or yule log baked. I don't know why - it's the same date this year it has been for the last 2,000 or so years so I can't pretend it has come as a surprise. 

The man is better prepared than I am. He has been practising for Christmas for weeks now by wandering around the kitchen with a bottle of beer in one hand, a box of chocolates in the other and getting in my way.

At least I've got the Christmas decorations down to a fine art. In our first Christmas together in our new house - many, many years ago - I decked our walls with boughs of holly, plus miles of streamers and tinsel. Every surface was covered with some sparkly festive ornament, from bowls of gold pebbles and pine cones to Christmas candles and miniature Santas. The tree was a work of art - a real one, naturally, so covered with gewgaws and baubles that it may as well have been artificial as not a green bough was to be seen.

 I, in my innocence, was delighted with the Santa's grotto ambiance - until January 6 when I had to take the whole blooming lot down again.


I learnt the lesson and now I like to think my house is more minimally and tastefully decorated - a few well-placed candles, the odd festive ornament and a small tree with a colour scheme and only a few bells and whistles. That's always the plan, anyway, until young relatives conspire to throw a spanner in the works of my dream of turning my house into a vision of blue and white loveliness.

They wander in, admire the decorations and then cry out, mortally offended: "Where's that candleholder I made you when I was in Year Two?" So it's back into the decorations box to dig out a misshapen lump of glittery purple plaster with a hole in the middle and the broken candle lying limply at its side. Hence, scattered among the elegant ornaments is a Father Christmas wearing sun-glasses, an angel with two broken wings and a crooked halo and a selection of papier mache tree hangings in various shapes and sizes. 



Look at this: 



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6 comments:

  1. Travel30 November 2023 at 11:38

    The tree started rising yesterday.

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  2. Liz A.30 November 2023 at 17:11

    We did our decorating the day after our Thanksgiving. I'm just about finished shopping, but I am still crocheting a small tree.

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  3. Misadventures of Widowhood1 December 2023 at 01:02

    I'm flattered to be called one of your favorite bloggers. You're one of mine as well. I'm not doing much this year in the way of decorating.

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  4. River1 December 2023 at 03:42

    The only Christamssy thing in my home is the Advent calendar with the first window opened this morning. I need to get my cards written tonight and posted tomorrow and hope they get where they are going in good time.

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  5. Darla Sands1 December 2023 at 22:57

    I haven't sent cards in years. ~hangs head~ I hung a wreath outside but that's all and there probably will be little else. Anyway, thank you for the giggles.

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  6. Rajani Rehana3 December 2023 at 07:14

    Please read my post

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