That's it, I've lost the plot!

Forward planning 😃

I only just remembered it's Hallowe'en soon and remembered to buy some sweets in case any little witches or ghouls knock on the door!!

Happy birthday to littlest grandson. 🎶🎵🎶

But if you’d waited they would have been snapped up by someone else!

Must start a shopping list for C*******a
And birthdays in between.

Sorry, sun on screen.

C*******s

I’ve just ordered crackers and a tree ornament, not just you kitty.

We've ordered lat week for future delivery, normal, I believe.

lat=last

I’m in the middle of making Xmas cakes and puds. Well - I’ve weighed out the butter and now I am having a break. 😂

Why do you think you lost the plot?
Xmas is only 2 months away!

No you have not lost the plot. I saw something online which I saved, when I went back it was no longer available. So the moral of the story is to buy something when you see it and not be disappointed. Well done for forward planning.

I've just bought my first 2 Christmas presents and feel pretty good about it. Just hope I remember where I put them when the time comes...

I wish i could say i was forward planning - they just appealed.

Hithere

Why do you think you lost the plot?
Xmas is only 2 months away!

😲

Oh heck!

I still have a packet of napkins left from last year 🙂

I might have reserved a Christmas delivery slot a couple of weeks ago, having been caught out in other years.

Must check, I think it could be a day I'm going out for a Christmas lunch.

I had to stop myself buying Christmas cards the other day, as I remembered just in time that I bought them in the sales in January. I wish I hadn’t - the new ones I’ve seen are so much nicer.

I didn’t even save any money. I bought them from Shelter online and added a donation because I felt guilty about getting them cheap. I don’t think I’ve quite got the hang of bargain hunting….

Well done for remembering you bought them before 1st January 2024, Maggiemaybe!
And where you put them 😁

Yes indeed (though I’ve just had to nip upstairs to check that they are where I thought they were).

Phew.

I’ll make my Christmas cake when my daughter and three children have gone back to New Zealand in about ten days time. I’m sending their cards and one gift each back with them but my daughter will have money deposited in her bank to buy other gifts. Then I’ll sort out gifts for the family here.
It’s difficult to think of Christmas yet. We’ve just had a family barbecue today (beautiful sunny weather) with everyone together ❤️ and now various children have disappeared for sleepovers with various family members. DH is watching the rugby, daughter is doing Lego with littlest grandson who had his sleepover last night and is celebrating his sixth birthday this weekend. I’m relaxing and looking at Gransnet for only the second time since they arrived.
Christmas seems a long way away.

maddyone I'm so pleased that you are having a lovely time with your family 🙂
We haven't all been together for 13 Christmases now.

Other than our grandson all gifts are bought kitty. Best go hide behind the sofa .

Oh dear!

Well at least I bought the sweets for Hallowe'en!

Ha 😂, we were in the butchers earlier this week and saw that they had some turkey crowns very reasonably priced. So, after a brief discussion, decided to buy one and put it in the freezer. We usually don’t have turkey as there’s just the two of us and, to be honest, I think it can be rather over rated, but these looked nice, and for us, will actually make a change as we normally avoid turkey for Christmas lunch. So, that’s our Christmas forward planning so far 😂.

Actually, strictly speaking, no, it isn’t. We spotted a couple of really sweet tree decorations in our local garden centre the other week. They were literally saying “buy me”, so we did. (They weren’t expensive). 😂. They had a couple left when we bought ours, but they’ve gone now, so I suppose that was good forward planning, too 😂