I had a shocking thought (lighthearted!)

Wash your mouth out !!!

Exactly what I was going to say, aggie. Though it can't be long now!!

La, la, la, la - fingers in ears!

I have bought a couple of C..... Gifts already but you are in a class of your own Witzend!

6 months to Christmas Day last Sunday. It will go over in a flash so good to be prepared Witzend.

Yes, well all provident housewives of our grandmothers' generation started thinking about mincemeat, quince jelly and Christmas puddings in late August or early September when they had finished jam-making and bottling fruit.

In February, my mother bought bitter Seville oranges for making the marmelade that my father ate at breakfast every day, and that we children were not allowed to have, as the home-made jam was cheaper, as we grew the raspberries, strawberries, currants and gooseberries ourselves, and collected the brambles.

I have just made the year's supply of elderflower cordial, decided that I have sufficient apple-cider-vinegar to last another year, which is all to the good, as the prolonged drought will probably minimize the apple crop, but hope for enough crab apples for jelly.

Grandmabatty

I have bought a couple of C..... Gifts already but you are in a class of your own Witzend!

Dare I also say that I’ve knitted half a shepherd and almost one Joseph for the nth N——ity S-t?

AGAA4

6 months to Christmas Day last Sunday. It will go over in a flash so good to be prepared Witzend.

It didn’t pass my attention either!🎄

Witzend I bow to my superior 😂

Well, we've got past the longest day so it's downhill all the way to C.......s as somebody once said.

Christmas crafting is already on Tv and in Hobbycraft.

I enjoy the summer first, then think of Christmas

The C…….s thread will be getting traffic very soon 😂😂.

PS, meant to add someone last posted on it in March, so, as I say, it won’t be long now - one has to be prepared 😂😂👍🏼

Don’t often post anymore but just to say Witzend I was so impressed by your nativity last year that I sent for the kit. It arrived early January and so far I’ve knitted half of Joseph! Good thinking re jar, C chutney (Riverford’s recipe) proved very popular with family.

Mince pies are not just for C... You can make them and eat them any time. Well that is what I say as I munch into another one.

I often make a mincemeat tray bake or cake it's something we eat in our house all year.

I must get the sprouts on!! 🤣

Bit late grannybags!!

kittylester

Bit late grannybags!!

😄

Nights are drawing in..,....... 🥶 Brrr

Bought my first C present yesterday. Good old JL sale.

Two Christmas reminders today.
1: I saw pigs in blankets in M&S. Had no idea they weren't seasonal.
2: Saw my knee surgeon this morning and he said he will do my knee replacement near Christmas as that's the soonest possible because I'm on blood thinners. Best present possible after a four year wait!

'Christmas in July' is a very long standing THING in the crafting world, its when all the new festive quilting fabrics come in and often run out quite quickly! Its amazing how they keep designing "just the very thing I needed"