Shoulda woulda coulda

[susie_flo]

Hmmm... I really ought to get out of bed and do something about C'mas, oughtn't I? Perhaps it will make me feel all festive and help me get on with things.

Yesterday I noticed that everyone in St Mags appears to have suddenly done their decs. It's really rather gorgeous. A winter wonderland of white twinkly lights... (with the exception of our downstairs neighbours, who have apparently failed to get the memo again. Cue the same, er, 'cosmopolitan' frantic flashers as last year).

Ok here's where I expose myself as a lady with too much time to think, but... I have decided that I don't like overly bushy Xmas trees. Unfortunately bushy seems to be the order of the day these days. But what I would really prefer is a more trad style of tree where the needles are shorter and sparser and there is enough drop between the branches to allow the baubles to sit suspended in space on a long thread... (oh god, do I need to pour myself a gin and think about the meaning of life?)

So anyway... I suppose I should think about getting a tree. This year a smallish one, as I have to save some decs for xmasifying the Devon cottage we're off to on 21st.

And, oh god, i really must finish my Xmas shopping. But all I fancy doing is staying at home and feeding ever more interesting veg combinations into my baby-puree-making gadge. Yeah, swivel on that, Diane Keaton! There's a new slopmaker in town!

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[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

We're not having a tree - but we might add some more things to the big plants we have in the living room and dining room - they already have skull and bat fairylights and bats hanging from them plus I'll have to hang my little knitted stockings from somewhere as we don't have a mantelpiece.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could hang the stockings on a string across a window?
I rather like things hung in windows.

Yesterday we drove past a huge double-fronted house that had old fashioned ceiling decs up - (you remember the metallic ones in the 70s that folded flat but opened out into a long streamer that you'd hang across the ceiling, with four of them going from the rose at the centre into the corners of the room?) Anyway it made me faintly nostalgic.

I imagine when Micro is old enough to have an interest in xmas all of my attempts at 'good taste' decs will go out of the window :-)