Fire low. Stuffing made. Turkey still hanging high in the rafters of the cold stable. Cat out for the night. Half moon high in the stars. Presents under the tree. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas! Our Christmas ham - ham #2 as the first one was so overcooked we had to start over - is safely done and waiting to be carved in the morning. Christmas Blessings to you and yours from Texas!
It all sounds lovely and peaceful and as opposite as can be from our odd city Christmas here in a highrise apartment building in Seoul. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I am enjoying your blog so much, from the Niagara area in Canada. While we are so far apart, among passionate gardeners, there are so many similarities! In additon to hearing your gardening stories, I especially like your philosophical discussions! Merry Christmas to you and your family
I always used to hate November: greyness, wetness, short days and dank, dark nights. It felt to me as if the world turned inward and the light left the sky and as the days darkened my energy dropped and so did my mood. When did my feelings change? I am not sure. My mother died in November and my father two years later in December. I think that these losses combined with my own growing sense of how fast time runs away with you have shifted me towards wanting to make the very most of each day. I can't afford to discount three or four months of the year. How many more years are there? I have no idea but I should make my days count. And lo and behold! It is possible to change the patterns of a lifetime! It is possible to find things to love in November and to be energised and excited, just as much as in Spring. Over the last few years I have found lots of ways to feel good in November and for me that seems to require some particular things to shape my day: Going Outside Far a
While Ian was away I decided it was time to make the new curtains for the cottage. I have been putting this off for at least four months, maybe six. First of all I couldn't find any material I liked at a price I could afford so that was a fine excuse. Then I read a recommendation for Textile Express on Annie's blog. Textile Express has a fab website but when I realised it was only forty minutes away in Oswestry I had to visit. Wonderful choice, great prices; material purchased. Then I carried on putting the job off because I was a bit daunted by the fact that two of the curtains are full length ones for doors but there is nothing like knowing you have a few days to yourself to make you feel you can get your teeth into a project. And amazingly, now it is done. As I have been thinking of nothing else for about a week I thought I would share with you my own advice on how to make lined curtains. I am not a supremely talented sewer but I have made loads of these over the
I haven't blogged since March! That's terrible. No excuse and every excuse: packing and moving and getting out of the rental house and into the new one. I probably could and should have blogged but I didn't so here I am now. We are here. We are in. The sitting room is calm and peaceful with our books on the shelves and our cushions on the chairs. The view across the field is almost as lovely as the one up to the hills. The amount of the glass still surprises me after so many years of our seventeenth century farmhouse, built for shelter, not for light. I love the cladding too against the white render. It feels like a house which belongs here even though it is yet to have a garden. I have got to know the sheltered sunny places to take a cup of tea and dream about the garden we will create. There are still things to do and in a couple of weeks the green roof will arrive for outside the guest bedroom and over the front porch. This is something else we have never had
Merry Christmas, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteAnd Merry Christmas to you! Sounds as if it's made a lovely start. . .
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you too, and I love that header photo, from sunny and beautiful Kangaroo Island, South Australia
ReplyDeleteIt all sounds perfect! Merry Christmas and the best of season's greetings to you and your family.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas! Our Christmas ham - ham #2 as the first one was so overcooked we had to start over - is safely done and waiting to be carved in the morning.
ReplyDeleteChristmas Blessings to you and yours from Texas!
Just going to fetch the Christmas cockerel out of the greenhouse - hope the mice haven't found it first. Best wishes to you for a happy Christmas.
ReplyDeleteIt all sounds lovely and peaceful and as opposite as can be from our odd city Christmas here in a highrise apartment building in Seoul.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and yours!
Words . . . wintery head photo . . . invites me into life in the Welch hills and more . . .
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Day . . .
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Fröhliche Weihnachten from Inge!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to stop by and wish you a very Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteHAPPIEST OF YULETIDES FROM LONG ISLAND!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and the family.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully, simply put, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteA very Happy Christmas to you and yours. xo
I am enjoying your blog so much, from the Niagara area in Canada. While we are so far apart, among passionate gardeners, there are so many similarities! In additon to hearing your gardening stories, I especially like your philosophical discussions!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and your family
I can imagine that your Christmas was a happy one, Elizabeth. Best wishes for a no-stress Boxing Day!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a good day. Merry Christmas and a Happy (and drier) New Year.
ReplyDeleteHope you are having a mega-Christmas and will find yourself beautifully refreshed and content.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for all good things in 2013.
Esther
Hi Elizabeth! I like you Christmas checklist! :-) I hope you and your family had a good time celebrating
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