Christmas is a-coming

[nineveh_uk]

And the goose is nowhere to be seen, which is fine by me. However I am going to have a go at hare over the holidays. My mother, who suffered a traumatic hare cooking incident more than 40 years ago, the reason that neither of my parents has cooked one since, has stipulated that it will be ordered fully prepared and jointed. Apparently there is a reason that they are cheaper to buy with the skin still on. On a less meaty culinary subject I have made mince pies, as last year I didn't have enough.

The Christmas tree is up - actually, it has been up for a week, which is too early,* but if I only put it up this weekend I'd only have it for a week before going away. The tinsel on the stairs is less successful, and needs another attempt. I have five more days left at work before the break, which is both good and terrifying. I was off for two days with a cold this week, which was not great timing. I suppose it is better than having a cold over Christmas, and hopefully it will be mostly gone by then. I have done almost all of my Christmas shopping, so I can relax about that.

Anyway, here (on LJ...) is the Christmas tree by special request of azdak so she feels less premature with hers!


*I have to say it is too early in case people think I don't realise this.

Comments

[antisoppist]

It is very like the John Lewis one that I wanted last year but they had sold out of, but it is made by someone local and I bought it at the street fair in September with my birthday money from my sisters (which I should have been spending on domestic equipment but I wanted one cheering thing as well). I think this makes it even better than one from John Lewis. It is in my window and I have hung my earrings on it, which means my earrings are decorative even when I am not wearing them and I get to look at them, which I can't when I am wearing them.

For Christmas I bought it a tree decoration house from Waitrose because I felt in need of a house, even if it was a very very small one. And if it was a symbolic, gods-placating, omen-ous, wish-fulfillment bid, it seems to have worked.

[nineveh_uk]

It looks like an excellent use of birthday money, and I like the little house in it's Lawrie Marlowe-esque glory. Local "artisan" Christmas trees are better even than JL.

It is a sad truth of earrings that most of the time one doesn't get to look at it. I seem to prefer studs to dangly ones, which means options for displaying them are less decorative, and they end up living in boxes (or wherever I take them off until I remember to put them away).