*The Holly and the Ivy* and the You Know What 2013 Chatter Thread.

choccymoose

Tasks for this week, wrapping

Finally decided to put the fake tree up, and found all our old decs which I thought we had sold. Really pleased as they red and gold

Fire surround still needs platering, but hopefully that will be done Tuesday, let that dry then wallpaper and paint. I have painted the other 3 walls ready. Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Went to the Christmas market in Exeter yesterday and less than a week before we board the POLAR EXPRESS .

Have my windows wide open trying to get the house cold so I can light the fire ! Curse you mild December not even wearing a jumper at the moment !

BettiePage

Is there a thread on here with photo's of everyone's xmas trees and decorations?

msgigglewick

waves...guess which silly moo has put her back out and locked her jaw all from coughing from a chest infection...rolls eyes... spent most of the day in bed either asleep cause of codiene or scared to move cause it hurts....

i need to wrap pressies tomorrow so shall get ironing board out and try my best... hopefully its just muscular and not the disc again....


plus side dh is home this week..hes 40 on wednesday, so got help around house and dd1 is currently cooking everyone roast dinner.

hope everyone is well. shall have a read back. throws mince pies and snowballs to all

Own_My_Own

BettiePage wrote: »

Is there a thread on here with photo's of everyone's xmas trees and decorations?

Your on it. We post them as we put them up. So there is a quite a few posts in between them. But if you go back about a week and skim read you will find the ones posted.

Pinksteps I'm bl00dy fuming for you. Pm me their address and I'll drive over there. I'm in the mood for a good row. Not that they would get a word in.

The market was worse than I expected. I just don't know why this council bother. No Christmas music. No Santa. Just 16 normal Market stalls. A total shambles.
It used to be on the main road through the town on the same night that the lights were turned on. Now because they made that a bus only road they can't close it. So it had to be on a side road the day after the switch on. I expect the stall holders that used to come just don't bother anymore.

So that's another thing I won't bother doing next year.

I can just hear myself as a old lady going on about how good things used to be when the kids were young. And how things went down hill after the Millennium.
' You know, we used to have Christmas Markets and Garden Centres that were worth visiting. Not like today. They used to have lights and a Santa. And there was things you actually wanted to buy. It was very festive. They were the good old days ! ' :rotfl::rotfl:

girlinayellowdress

Aww thank you omo, I know you would do that too.

Two of my DS's painted my bathroom to cheer me up and I had a lazy afternoon wrapping and tidying.

The original row when we never talked was because my mum was out shopping and had her handbag stolen. The police called me to ask me to go to my mums house in case the thief turned up whilst my mum was in the police station. By the time I got there, the police were outside and the neighbour said oh here comes the madam now [god only knows what he was telling the police about me]. I told my children to get indoors and ignore him and he decided he was going to try and hit me! Poor policeman in between us, I just laughed which made him more angry. My poor mum was in the police car when it came over the radio it was a near arrestable offence going on at her address. She was too frightened to ask if it was the neighbour or me!

girlinayellowdress

On a more positive note I got DS some nice bits from asos sale and extra weekend discount for his birthday in Feb

fevertotell

Hiya all, Hugs and love to all that need it...i'm loving all the tree and Christmas piccies...Excellent!

We have had a lovely child out weekend, Yesterday ds2 was at a beavers sleepover so dd and i watched Barbies swan lake Christmas on netflix...we had a bag of sweets and Xmas marshmallows each (in aldi) i did little pick n mixes...you can't go to the cinema without sweeties lol!

Then we went with her Brownie unit to see Puss in Boots in our village hall put on by the local Am drams...was excellent and it was lovely just hanging out as a family with the inlaws as well.

Today has been relaxed-playing mariokart on the wii and doing homework, bloke has cooked our eve meal and it's great.
DD has gone to a Christingle with her Nan, it gets very busy so i've stayed home with bloke...ds2 has gone in his room with the ipad and vegging out in his bed....i think he's missed technology in the 24 hours he's not had it! lol!

Tomorrow i have a few xmas cards to write and post and a bit of light housework to do.

It's a busy week as it's ds2 xmas play week, 3 performances...my lifegroup( church) xmas meal out on weds and then church nativity rehearsals on friday eve...with nativity being on Sunday morning...Then there's a few more performances for dd the following week...then it's relax for a bit lol

I'm feeling a bit better and more motivated than before-think the happy pills are kicking in :-)

Ruth_honey

I know all I've posted about recently has been Christmas tv, but just spotted that Home Alone is on channel 4 now, so on +1 at 6:25pm!!! My hubby has never seen it. Tut tut.

Fell asleep during the Elf-a-thon and missed about half an hour of the end, so will have to rewatch again tonight or tomorrow. What I saw was really good, though.

choccymoose

Ok before pics of the tree etc here is the lounge wall
Before


During




Very nearly finished



Bet this hasnt worked whoop whoop it has, the fire has had to be a little off centre due to the chimney but can't wait for plastering to be finished Tuesday, then paper up as soon as we can followed by paint.

choccymoose

Now I have this sussed some Christmassy ones




Went for fake tree in the end, if dog gets it we were going to get a new fake one anyway so will get one in the sales. Found all the old decs so they fitted in with the new colours that are gradually making their way into the lounge

That s it for now folks off to create some plaster of paris Father Christmas s as you do, hooe every one well