Wishing you all a joyful, blessed and peaceful celebration of our Lord and Saviour’s birth.
“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom His favour rests.”

In the kitchen, early this morning, before the much needed mugs of tea:
me (very frustrated) -”Would it kill you to listen to me?”
him (perplexed) – “What? You’ll pay me to listen to you?”
both collapse laughing.
Ironically his name means “he listens”.

***for the BooMama Christmas tour please scroll down***

the Christmas trees have arrived

It is with huge relief that I can report that we now have a Christmas tree in our home, together with three in the Church.  And not only do we now have these trees, but we actually have them upright in stands!  I did try telling my husband that putting up the trees was definitely [...]

I saw my doctor yesterday afternoon, and he is intrigued by my ultrasound result.  It is only 3 years since I had a laparoscopy, and the doc thinks it is not much time for endometriosis to develop in and so thinks that it might have been missed when the infertility investigations were done.  On the other hand, as [...]

tree toppers

Admiring everyone’s decorations on the Christmas tour I’m starting to wonder if there is some kind of denominational separation in tree toppers along the lines of: good Protestants have stars, Catholics have angels???  I have both (that would be the Anglican via media, I guess!), which one goes topmost depends purely on which I can [...]

BooMama’s Christmas tour

Boomama has come up with a brilliant idea:  a tour round our Christmas decorations at home.  Perfect for a nosey person like me who loves to look round other people’s houses and enjoys looking in through lit windows when people leave their curtains open. So here is a peek into my home. 
But first, have a mince pie [...]

Is it just me

 or does time actually speed up as you get closer to Christmas?  Mind you, this is probably not a point of view shared by children – when I was little time certainly slowed to a snail’s pace in the run up to Christmas.  I really think some research should be done on this.  Maybe for each [...]

I’m feeling much, much better than when I last posted!  My mother is visiting this weekend and yesterday we went out to lunch and then to the Royal Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker – wonderful and sparkly, we had a lovely time.  I’m making the most of the ballets on in London this December:  next [...]

’tis the season to. . . cough. . .

I’m recovering from bronchitis – feeling better than I was but still feeling remarkably foul.  At least my coughing isn’t keeping everyone awake at night any more!  My father-in-law is also recovering from bronchitis but his is self-inflicted chronic bronchitis caused by 70 years of smoking.  And he has had antibiotics to help him on [...]