Early

I’ve been finishing the tree and Gordon has been sorting lights. I can’t believe we are doing this so early. Normally it’s a bit last minute. I think that is a legacy from when I was teaching. Having spent day after day on festive stuff (and secretly longing to get back to ‘normal’), the last thing I wanted was to have to go home to it. So the day the schools finished was the day we got a tree, went out for tea and then got the tree decorated.

Santa’s train been unearthed. It’s probably as old as our children, it looks a bit battered and has been mended at various times, but it’s still going. It must have had tiny candles in at one time, but I don’t think we will put them in this year.