Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Baileys_Babe

As CLF says in the main standard ones. Slippers also seem popular in certain circles. My own children love wearing both so would be happy if we joined in with this new tradition. Dd has put them 2nd on her wishlist.

I think the thought of everyone getting in to new or fresh nightwear and spending a calm festive evening together watching a film / playing games / reading either individually or sharing a book sounds a great way to start Christmas.

carrielovesfanta

I've just remembered my dad's rather amusing, slightly ambiguous comment about his new pj's

"I've never spent Christmas eve with a party of people in my pyjamas before!"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

crazy_cat_lady

As you know, I am from the NE and Christmas Eve jammies has always been a thing for as long as I can remember. My mam always said to me that it was so we were all wearing something new and nice when we opened our presents from Santa (somewhere between 4 and 6am usually :rotfl:) The deal was that we could always open 1 present on Christmas Eve and it was always new nightwear - I still do that with my kids now.

foxgloves

Dawn - Those leftover pastry things sound lovely!
Thanks to everyone who has explained the Christmas Eve jamas thing to me. I had honestly not heard of it until I started using these forums.
F x

foxgloves

Twinkly greetings dear diary readers,
I was going to type 'soggy' rather than 'twinkly' as it has so far been another day of unbroken rain. But the house smells of just-baked bread & I've switched the tree lights on, so that has helped with my rainy ennui.
Well, M F has broken up for Christmas but I've had the place to myself this morning, as he went off to the cinema for important light-sabre viewing. I've cleaned the house, baked bread rolls, done my German, tidied, finished sewing in the ends on the big hiking socks I've been knitting, made some royal icing & iced the Christmas cake.
Mr F volunteered to get the grocery shopping on his way home. It was only a small list as we very deliberately did our 'days up to Christmas' meal plan from the freezer to free up some much needed space.
So, there I am sitting at my laptop doing endless translations of 'The shoes do not fit', 'Is that a button' & 'Do you wear dresses?', etc, etc, when a text pinged on my phone from the Beloved Shopper, asking 'Do we have room in the freezer for a.........?" & there was a little emoji of something vaguely brown. I just couldn't make out what it was, so I texted back" Freezer full, but am sure we can find space if u r up 4 some tetris'. A few more German translations.... then I thought, 'I wonder what that picture is'. I had a look at it right under the light, & oh my giddy aunt, it was a bloody turkey!! No, we don't have room for a turkey in there! Not unless we eat about four random dinners each tonight! We are aiming to buy one, but we don't need it untilbetween Christmas & new year so thought we'd take pot luck.
Thankfully, he thought better of it in the shop & had put it back. It was over 11lbs, he informed me, somewhat ruefully & he felt he'd missed out, but if he'd arrived home with it, I think he'd have been playing freezer tetris until bedtime!
Well, I think I'll pop up to my desk where I've put the Christmas cake out of harm's way for the icing to dry out. I just have a pizza to finish making for tonight's meal, then it is twinkly leisure time for me.
Stay dry all,
F x

HairyHandofDartmoor

I hope your rain stops soon Foxgloves. Do you fancy a holiday in Germany to practise your German? Thank goodness Mr F didn't buy the turkey!

Blackcats

It's been another very soggy day here too - perpetually grey until it was dark again. Nice and cosy indoors though and I'm listening to music with a glass of wine.
I've got Monday and Tuesday morning to work but it's quite a quiet time so I can catch up and tidy up emails and papers ready for January re-start.
An 11lb turkey would not easily tuck into a spare space in the freezer!

HairyHandofDartmoor

I read this article on sleep and thought of you waking up so early Foxgloves https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/16/how-i-finally-learned-to-sleep-insomnia

foxgloves

Thanks for the link, HHoD. Interesting article. My sleep problem is that once I'm awake, I can't switch my head off. The minutiae which I wouldn't bother stressing about during the day assumes significant to huge proportions at the cusp of dawn.
I am going to work on this & a few other things in the new year. Thankfully, I rarely ping awake at 3.15am these days, which was a daily..... & exhausting occurrence wile I was working.
F x

foxgloves

Hello my little sugar-topped mince pies,
Well ring out solstice bells.... I managed to sleep till 6.30 this morning & was then brought breakfast in bed.
A nice gentle morning..... I've done a small amount of laundry to ensure we have enough clean clothes over Christmas & we've popped into town to look around the Christmas Market. I only needed a very few things. My moisturiser was free, after discovering I had over £9 of points on my Boots card & the other two items on my list were on offer elsewhere, one of them half price. We stopped for a chat with the Big Issue man as we noticed he'd been standing there for ages with not only nobody buying, but nobody even acknowledging him or making eye contact. We talked about how he is used to much snowier winters back in his home country, snow which can be chest-height. He had noticed how little snow it takes in the UK for everything to descend into chaos, so we had a laugh about that. We do seem hopeless here at any extreme of weather, don't we?
Well, not too much on the job list this afternoon. I need to make some fudge... the only outstanding gift, so will put some nice folky Christmas CDs on & crack on with that. I need to write a list of what I need to do before we head south, too & decide what to wear. That's why I put some laundry on, as you can absolutely guarantee that at least half of what I want to pack would otherwise be in the wash!
Later, I'm going to cast on a beautiful skein of yarn from my stash which I received for my birthday to make myself a pair of socks. I am still working on my new jumper, but I want a small very portable project to take with me to do over Christmas. Lots of nice stuff still in my stash so no yarn shop temptation, hopefully, for a good while yet.
OK, it's been lovely having five mins over a coffee to chat to you. I must go & line my fudge tin now. The sooner it's made, the sooner it will set & I can box it up ready for gifting tomorrow.
F xx
P. S Hope you've all got your sprouts on or they'll be hard as bullets on Christmas Day, lol x