Ady was working at the hostel today 10am to 2pm, which in reality meant he was gone all day as he always leaves for work really early. When we lived in Sussex he would regularly leave over an hour before he needed to to get to work, I think it went back to the days at B&Q where everyone got to work early for coffee, cigarettes and a game of darts before you started work. I used to do the same, latterly I would rather have the extra minutes in bed though! As he was going to the village he took down a load of laundry, collected the veg box (which had been invaded by either rats or mice and two apples and a carrot gnawed at!), the post and various bits and pieces as the cabin at the back of the old hostel is being cleared out and there are odds and sods of furniture left behind which are up for grabs. Today he got a mirror (which will be fab repainted for the shed) and a bench.
Meanwhile the kids and I were working on Christmas stuff – Scarlett and I made candles for various secret santa gifts. I’d seen an idea on line for adding cinnamon to give a festive scent so wanted to try that. I made one in a jam jar with cinnamon and little silver stars, Scarlett made some stars in a star mould we’d bought at Lidl in golden with silver stars and then we decided to make some mulled wine / winter spice scented ones with orange, cinnamon and cloves and some burgandy colour wax. They came out the best and we decided to use cinnamon oil next time rather than ground cinnamon as that all sank to the bottom of the wax. Planning to do some more tomorrow as I found another jam jar and Scarlett wants to try again.
Davies did some Christmas cards although he faffed around a lot and I got cross with him later in the day for wasting so much time. The cards he did do are fantastic though.
Scarlett did some painting and later her and I made some yarn Christmas trees which I’d seen online and came out even better than I’d expected. So good infact that we’re making more tomorrow and Davies wants to join in. Last year’s best online craft find was the plastic bottle icicles, this years is definitely yarn trees. I did some crochet too and we listened to lots of Christmas tunes. Â I did start chopping up some wood but managed to get box axes stuck in knotty bits of wood so Ady took over when he got home.
Pizza for dinner, we started watching Spike which was just too babyish so ended up watching Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas instead. Tomorrow is The Holiday.