It was the most glorious day today which wasn't quite what was forecast but we are not complaining!!! However what with that, and the uncertainties of the Covid world in which we find ourselves, it has been rather hard to get enthusiastic about Christmas and trimming up the house but as we have Lilian coming up with Mum on Sunday we thought we really should try and get into the festive spirit.
Tomorrow the new restrictions come into play to that the Mall will close at the end of play today. Pictures on social media showed queues and queues and queues - I was so glad that John had suggested we go bright and early on Monday when there were more staff in that shop than customers!!!
I am a little worried that some of the gifts I have ordered from the UK will not arrive in time so I may have to wrap IOU's instead but there is nothing I can do about that and we are all in the same boat.
Christmas Day is two weeks' tomorrow and I am trying to get myself organised. Tomorrow I have planned to make our traditional Boxing Day pasties and freeze them so I don't have to panic about getting them made next week. I have all the ingredients so that will be my afternoon activity after our regular Friday walk weather permitting although the forecast does show some heavy rain coming our way.
We have not put up anything like the normal amount of decorations that we drag out year after year. There is no colour scheme going on in our house - more like an explosion in a grotto but some of our decorations go back years (and look like it!!!). When I was younger I could never understand why people's decorations weren't colour coordinated but now I understand that often pieces come with history and are much loved. I dread to think how long we have had the garland that sits along the mantlepiece - if we bought it for when we had the fireplace in Glenthorne Avenue then it must be coming up to celebrating it's 25th birthday or maybe even more!
I finished off the Christmas Tree - it never takes long as it is only a small one which sits on a cupboard in the conservatory - some years no time at all if I have put it away complete with baubles which I do do sometimes! John has found a radio station on Amazon with Christmas music to try and get us in a festive mood and it is beginning to work!
With one final opportunity to support the Gin Bar before it has to close due to the latest restrictions John went along and I benefitted from a lovely Christmas Present (or at least I hope it will be). I have a bottle of Red Velvet Cupcake Baileys which I am sure I am going to enjoy after cooking the Christmas Dinner!
Even though some of our plans with Mum have gone out of the window I am sure we will have a lovely time together. I have to get my thinking cap on as to what we are going to watch - I usually go through the TV Times magazines that Mum gives me and mark up some series and things which I think will be fun. This year there have been no such magazines so it is going to have to be guesswork - we are bound to find some classic Christmas specials somewhere on the box to keep us amused.
An early night for us - the weather forecast was correct - after a glorious day the clouds started to amass overhead in Droushia and during the night we had some really heavy downpours.
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