I’ve had  a lovely day today, a real return to the run up to Christmasses past just being in the same space as the kids while they got on with their stuff and I got on with mine. I do miss that easy companionship with them sometimes as we are all off doing our own thing.
I made pastry for mince pies and gingerbread dough and Scarlett and I attempted some brazil nut brittle but I took my eye off the sugar and it caught so it looks gorgeous but tasted too burnt to eat. Barbara pig will enjoy it nonetheless so it won’t go to waste! Scarlett found some boiled sweets to crush up so we made stained glass window biscuits and loads of stars to stack up for Christmas trees and we listened to lots of festive tunes too – the news on the radio was too sad today 🙁 Head firmly in sand.
Ady was off with the chainsaw stocking up our firewood reserves, I probably should have been helping really as tomorrow’s weather is forecast to be horrid so will be another indoors day but never mind.
Ady came in for lunch, we watched the second Vicar of Dibley on our Christmas special dvd but it was a comic special one about Live Aid and G8 summit so was more preachy and worthy than funny. Hmmm, not at all easy to avoid the world troubles today really!
After lunch Ady popped back out to finish up for an hour or so while Scarlett gathered decorations, I covered some cardboard in tin foil to make mini cake boards and mixed up some green icing and then we all made a gingerbread tree each by stacking up stars, lobbing icing at them and covering in sugary stuff. Ady went totally overboard with everything from icing to glitter spray to sticking a candle in the top, Davies seemed to mostly be eating the decorations, I tried to be arty but failed – hey gingerbread and icing is not my art media of choice and Scarlett was precise and took forever but outputted by fair the best finished tree. It was lots of fun 🙂
We watched something about BBC in the 80s on catch up and then I cooked dinner. Stir fry with more of our own pork 🙂 Self sufficiency never tasted so good!
Couple of episodes of HIMYM and then Santa Clause 2 as advent movie. Everyone, even Ady is struggling to get up in the morning, it is still not fully light even at 9am although sunset is a tiny smidge later every day now.