Three sleeps to go. For the younger brigade, already in their beds as I write this, really only two. No time at all. Time instead for Christmas commiserations to commence in earnest. You know what these are. They are the moment you meet a fellow traveller on the well-trodden route towards Christmas and they ask …
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Christmas baking is its own special category – and don’t we know it. And normally, it’s a tradition I happily participate in. This time round – the weekends got a bit overly full in December. So for once, the baking has fallen by the wayside. Part of me would like to mourn this a bit …
Time for another Christmassy post. Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is… When I started planning out subjects for this month’s posts, pantomime was one that made the list early on. Others will choose to focus their Christmas ‘must dos’ on elves on shelves (or not, depending on this year’s press about it), cookie …
It’s the end of term here today. Time for a Christmas sing-song. To be honest, it’s the first time we’ve graduated to attending a concert, rather than a nativity. It feels appropriate to mark it somehow. I keep writing about A Formal Feeling as one of my Christmas reads. One of the elements I like …
The origin of this idea is the phrase ‘Has Santa been good to you?’ It’s more of a thing in Scotland, by my reckoning, though it seems to be in lots of places now. I wondered what it would be like if Santa had not been good: not that we’re having bad Santas on this …