27.12.2011 Family Christmas Featuring gift SPECTACULARLY wrapped by myself (spoiler alert- it’s a bike). 

27.12.2011 Family Christmas

Featuring gift SPECTACULARLY wrapped by myself (spoiler alert- it’s a bike). 

25.12.2011 My first extended family Christmas in quite some time proved to be entirely lovely. Enjoying this whole family thing.

25.12.2011 My first extended family Christmas in quite some time

proved to be entirely lovely. Enjoying this whole family thing.

21.12.2011 An empty room This implies many things, including that we’re closed now after a fantastic Christmas party, that earlier this room and another were full of people laughing and talking and being kind (mostly), that finally, at 4pm I finished cleaning from lunch and could go home, and that I’m now on holidays for almost four weeks. Oh yes, oh yes and OH YES. In short, while I had a wonderful day- really, really wonderful actually, despite a lunch that fed around 60- this was the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.

21.12.2011 An empty room

This implies many things, including that we’re closed now after a fantastic Christmas party, that earlier this room and another were full of people laughing and talking and being kind (mostly), that finally, at 4pm I finished cleaning from lunch and could go home, and that I’m now on holidays for almost four weeks. Oh yes, oh yes and OH YES.

In short, while I had a wonderful day- really, really wonderful actually, despite a lunch that fed around 60- this was the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.

20.12.2011 The Rewards of Being Sookie I was tired, oh so tired. And one day away from holidays. And wanting to ice my gingerbread menagerie but every time I try to do lovely cooking things like a lovely cooking lady I fuck it up a little and the icing was a bit naff and I was running out of time and I was SO TIRED and so I sort of had a mini mental break down and cried about my biscuits.  Then Kate helped me because she is a saint and was nice to me all night and then made these delicious meringue things with the left over icing because losing your shit over Christmas snacks should be answered with lovely dessert. 

20.12.2011 The Rewards of Being Sookie

I was tired, oh so tired. And one day away from holidays. And wanting to ice my gingerbread menagerie but every time I try to do lovely cooking things like a lovely cooking lady I fuck it up a little and the icing was a bit naff and I was running out of time and I was SO TIRED and so I sort of had a mini mental break down and cried about my biscuits. 

Then Kate helped me because she is a saint and was nice to me all night and then made these delicious meringue things with the left over icing because losing your shit over Christmas snacks should be answered with lovely dessert. 

19.12.2011 Gingerbread army. Baked! Baked a friggin mountain of biscuits. Including ninjabread men.  Checkmate, Christmas.

19.12.2011 Gingerbread army.

Baked! Baked a friggin mountain of biscuits. Including ninjabread men. 

Checkmate, Christmas.

12.12.2011 Christmas is in our dining room  We don’t have a tree, so this year we decorated the pile of suitcases I left out (the teapot is the star) and I changed our fake wall bunting to christmas colours. This will do. 

12.12.2011 Christmas is in our dining room 

We don’t have a tree, so this year we decorated the pile of suitcases I left out (the teapot is the star) and I changed our fake wall bunting to christmas colours. This will do. 

04.12.2011 Seasonal viewing on slothful night in Home Alone and Love Actually are balms on the soul of not only those who love Christmas and light hearted drama/comedy, but on those whose planned weekend long fiesta of wonderment has fallen a little flat in reality leaving them feeling a little old and a wee bit shit. Oh I watched these with my housemates, not just like, crying on the couch by myself. MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALL!! God bless us every one, particularly those responsible for holiday themed filmic entertainment featuring celebrity cameos, child stars and or Hugh Grant. Amen. “Keep the change, you filthy animal.”

04.12.2011 Seasonal viewing on slothful night in

Home Alone and Love Actually are balms on the soul of not only those who love Christmas and light hearted drama/comedy, but on those whose planned weekend long fiesta of wonderment has fallen a little flat in reality leaving them feeling a little old and a wee bit shit. Oh I watched these with my housemates, not just like, crying on the couch by myself.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALL!! God bless us every one, particularly those responsible for holiday themed filmic entertainment featuring celebrity cameos, child stars and or Hugh Grant. Amen.

“Keep the change, you filthy animal.”

15.11.2011 It is indeed beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I must confess, as crass and awful and too early as it gets, I dig on Christmas and associated paraphernalia so hard. 

15.11.2011 It is indeed beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I must confess, as crass and awful and too early as it gets, I dig on Christmas and associated paraphernalia so hard.