Hi everyone. If you didn't check the last few pages of the previous week, it was very busy. I'm going to catch up all the latest posts after dinner.
Annette I;m your generation! I remember making paper-chains too. My Dad had a coronary a short time before Christmas one year, at a time when the only treatment was pheno-barbitone and rest, and my Mum made very fancy chains on her sewing machine so that we could decorate his bedroom! They adorned other rooms in quite a few subsequent Christmases. Havn't even got my cards up yet and the Christmas treee is still in the loft. I'll have to get a move on!
Diane I had never heard of bilbies before but what cute little creatures and I so hope that conservationists are able to save them. I learn something all the time from the bloggers.
Margobird
Sharp frost this morning -glad the central heating got serviced!
AQ – had heard about Rabbit-eared Bilby, but hadn’t remembered them – they are cute! In the picture in the link from Diane, the one the man is holding has a number apparently tattooed in its ear!
Annette – I also made paper chains – either glued them at school, and they got squashed on the way home and then fell apart as the glue dried out, or Mum bought packs of gummed ones and they had to be licked like envelopes – yuck! – and they also fell apart! Then we had crepe paper “garland” from Woolworths. You ask about UK these days – well, anything goes, from a single light in a window to something resembling a shopping mall! Some decorations sold for domestic use are big enough for the grandest castle!! Daughter #1 says daughter #2 goes totally over the top – if there is a bit of wall, a door, a picture frame (or if a member of the family stands still too long!) it gets something hung on it! Daughter #2 says her father and I do nothing, because all we have these days is a tree in the lounge – red and gold theme one year, pink and silver the next -, the other colour chains, bows, wreaths etc in the dining room, a spray on the front door and a table-top lit up scene in the hallway (but I don’t think she knows we have that one!). Daughter #1 herself is probably middle of the road – she is the one with younger children (youngest 10), so there is still some school stuff coming home - but hers is quite tasteful, and like us mostly the same from year to year.
Patriciat – I would normally not do tree till just before Christmas, but we shall be away so I thought I ought to endure/enjoy it before we go! Not putting cards up in case they fall down and set off alarm!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Morning everyone
Perishing cold here today - no new snow, just the small amount that fell yesterday & is frozen solid.
I went out to fill the bird feeders and bird bath earlier - in slippers & short-sleeved top - what an idiot :)) Never mind the birds are appreciating my efforts.
I am going to finish my present wrapping today & then all is done - going to friends for Christmas Day & then again on Boxing Day, so not much effort required on my part!!
AQ - I had never heard of Bilbies before ... they are soooo cute!
The tree & lights etc went up last weekend so it looks reasonably festive ... unlike my friend who has a house that is so OTT it would put Santa's Grotto to shame :))
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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morning all.
Stay safe all those getting snow.
Thanks for the link AQ, I'm going to check that out later.
Funny how everyone is different regarding decorations:) I remember that chains as well. I think we stapled them. Our best decoration was a bell that hung in the dining room and when you pulled the "hammer" down (looks a bit like a weight on a clock) it plays silent night, getting slower as the cord gots shorter. It is the best thing ever and I remember always wanting to pull it but as it got older we had to be more careful. I can't remember a christmas without it and now Mum has to put it up first!!
Afternoon all,
I was called out on an urgent shopping mission this morning so this is my first post of the day.
I too remember the paper chain decorations and having to lick them to stick them together. Also the ones that folded down between two cards and you could never get them back the way they started. Also a folding bell type thing that hung from the ceiling.
The weather is sunny here today but all the roads are a sheet of ice apart from the main ones.
Temp -1c feels like -5c , uncomfortably cold , Wind NNW 8.1mph , Sunrise 08:07 , Sunset 15:47.
Off to take the thunderdog for a walk in the snow.
I, too remember licking and sticking paper chains (from the 1950s!) - and the crepe streamers from Woolworths - and we had a bell that opened out between 2 cardboard bell shapes. And I remember when I was a little girl that the 'best' ornament on the tree was a silver ball with blue and pink stripes and a gold paper hanger:))
Afternoon all. Yesterday was the coldest evening this winter so far, -24C. Today temps much tolerable -13C.
Heron77: love your sense of humor! Keep those one liners coming:) And yes, though it`s been silly cold it is beautiful: white frosted trees against deep blue sky where bright white stars twinkle.
AQ: read that Santa-story from our newspaper, oh dear... And thank you for those cute Bilbys (Bilbies?). Haven`t heard of them before so also thank you Diane of that www-page
Loved Alan`s snow pic; you seem to have more snow than us right now. Saw on telly last night UK`s snow situation, hope you guys are ok there! Maybe making snow mans?
Annette: Casablanca is one of my favorite movies ever!
OG: great mental picture getting decorated whilst standing still LOL
Gary: When I was a kid, we had a table version of that bell, but it was a "wind from the bottom"-one. Finally we (my sis and I) winded (wound? wand?) it once too much so it "died" and wouldn`t play anymore.
my photos in flickr
Just come on here,after a busy day yesterday when no time to look even at the chat blog. See I have some stuff to catch up on!!
Thank you very much, DjoanS, for the beautiful Christmas card.
what a beautiful card DjoanS, thank you and merry christmas.
Enjoying all the "fav" decorations.
Auntie, that is cold. brrrrrrrr. Nice you had the bell. "ours" has to be at least 40 years old and is still working. I have my eye on it...............................