I keep my blog as a personal record of what I'm up to, which might be seen as working towards "An elegant sufficiency, content, retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, ease and alternate labour, useful life"

I'm certainly not there yet.  There is quite some way to go!

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Entries from January 1, 2011 - January 31, 2011

Monday
Jan032011

Goodbye Christmas 2010

 

Today we de-Christmassed.  Funny how it takes a day to decorate the house and yet it all comes down in a couple of hours.

 

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One small bear had a slight fall from grace in the process – fortunately she fell in a way which saved her blushes.  Our Christmas tree was stripped of all the bah-boo-bah (as tinsel is known in this household) and looked particularly sad and droopy.

Time to move on!

 

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Remembering the Martha Stewart blog entry about decorating the tree, (just wait till you see photo 11!)  I was conscious of how many boxes contain our Christmas decorations.

 

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Answer: Three.  The Christmas story books go into a separate box and don’t count as decorations! 

 

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They’re now all in the loft again with just one casualty, sadly.  Of course, it had to be a lovely one, newly purchased this year in a set of four from my friend’s great gift shop Chalk  - here’s hoping she still has one or two left so I can get a replacement.

 

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After all that exhausting work (!) a spot of lunch was required.  On the way there, it started to snow.

 

Enough already!!

Sunday
Jan022011

Happy New Year!

 

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It was around the time the cheese was being passed around that we looked at the clock and realised there were only ten or fifteen minutes of 2010 left. 

 

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A quick pop of a cork and a few sparklers later and it was 2011.

 

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Definitely an evening for leaving the washing up until morning.

 

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The evidence of a lovely evening in the company of dear friends.

 

Happy New Year!

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