Yes, Gally, in my head my house is a Good Housekeeping, Ideal Home house at Christmas. Alas I do not have a bannister to twirl reams of holly and bows around. I do not have a mantel to decorate with holly and ivy, candles and santa. I do not have a chimney (now, I have a blocked one) for the strange old man to clamber down and leave soot all over my 'beautiful cream luxury carpet' (beige and trampled on) No log fire, no extending table to decorate. In my head I do - I do.
What I do have is garlands of holly and ivy along picture tops and book cases, cards, cards and more cards, Lots of Christmas ornaments around the room for the grandchildren to amaze and wonder over (and drop) crepe paper garlands strewn across the ceiling, large paper pom poms a-dangling, one cut-it-myself (well DDH chopped it) Christmas tree which always takes at least an hour to choose. Decorated with millions of lights and baubles collected through the years along with one or two new ones each year. I LOVE CHRISTMAS