Beautiful tree BladeAnnie 🎄
We chose our tree this afternoon it’s now standing in a bucket of water outside ready to be brought in and decorated (assaulted) by The Imp and his brother tomorrow. I will rearrange the tree when the 7yr old is in bed 🤣🤣 #badgran
I shall leave one of my mince pies on the side 🤶
Soop the prevaricating bedtime child was up again at 6:10am! I’d forgotten what that particular time looked like on the clock! 
We went out for breakfast at the garden centre then bought our Christmas tree. I’ve decided to try a potted one, which can be put in the garden and used again next year. It was about twice the price of the equivalent cut tree but if it does two years, we’ll have broken even and maybe it will last even longer. I’ll bring it in and decorate it next week when we’re back from down south.
All my cards have now been posted - that’s early for me but because we have a new address I wanted to get it done asap. This evening I’m wrapping presents to take down to family. I need to pack as well, though I’ve just realised the bags we need are in the garage and I’m not going out there in there temperatures to get them! We can make tidy piles of what we need and get the bags tomorrow.
I feel as though I’m all at sixes and sevens as we had news today of a potentially serious health concern with one of the DD’s. We should find out more next week and I’m desperately hoping it will be at the less-worrying end of the spectrum because the bad news seems relentless right now.
TOYA. Xxx
Those mince pies look yummy. I’ll just snaffle one. Or two! OH and I had an interesting reunion lunch today. It was a meeting of people who had worked at the company where I first met OH. He was a young graduate engineer and I was a secretary. The food was delicious apart from the red cabbage and Brussels sprouts
it was good meeting up with people who we first knew over 40 years ago. I have been watching Simon Schama’s latest series (OH is upstairs watching football) and I highly recommend it. Revisiting 1984 is worrying!
‘Evening All’
Goodness GG13 your mince pies do look fab! Looking at them is fine this year for me - that way they are ‘fat-free’. (Diet). Hey ho.
I rang my elderly friend in Yorkshire today as it’s her birthday (87y). She was the lady who was our neighbour in Málaga and we helped with shopping, plates of dinner and the occasional G&at during the State of Emergency when we couldn’t leave the building except to shop for nine weeks. It was an awful time and we were glad of one another being on our landing. Anyway - it was lovely to chat and she’d been out for lunch with her family. She said moving back was the right decision at her age and being alone out there. She did say she misses all her friends at LWW 🍷 though!
Thank you, everyone. This is such a kind place to be. ❤️
On the more cheerful side, I posted the last of my Christmas cards today - I meant to say that earlier. I wanted to get them off relatively early, to advise people of our change of address. 
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