Good morning, everyone. It was a flippin' cold day yesterday and it's a flippin' cold start to today as well. It's December, it is supposed to be cold in December but that doesn't mean we have to like it! What was nice though was the glorious winter sunshine. No complaints there.
Have any of you had snow (or more snow) yet?
Yesterday worked out really well after a stupidly early start.
Chris turned up at ten and we had a jolly good chat as always.
Then I did Santa duties and now have a big bag of goodies that can go under tomorrow's Christmas tree temporarily.
Annoyingly, some of the Virgin Media services crashed at some point in the morning so I had to resort to the PC to get my daily YouTube fix. Netflix is also out of action (or was) and that is not great as it's a paid service. I gather it was a nationwide problem and some areas lost all TV access, not just a few things. I haven't checked this morning but fingers crossed they have got it sorted now.
Remember the flowers I showed you last week. Well, here they are again, still OK. Mind you, I refreshed the water yesterday and they left a little trail of petals all the way to the kitchen and back again so they are on the way out, for sure, and are starting to look a bit shrivelled. However - two weeks of loveliness for £5.97 - really not bad!
I put together a makeshift for wreath for the front door - I had one of those cheap undecorated rings of artificial branches and just stuck in a few shiny bits. I am looking forward to a wreath making course in eight days' time but wanted something in the meanwhile. I forgot to take a photo but it looks OK. Nothing posh but then, living at the end of a cul de sac, no one ever goes past anyway?
Today, being Friday, starts off with Slimming World, followed by a quick shop in Morrison's for a few things for tomorrow. Then I'm home again to just tidy a few corners of the house in preparation for the cleaners.
Today's decoration thingy is getting out my lovely wooden Nativity set and putting it up where it usually goes. I'll try to remember to take a photo but here's one from last year. It will look pretty much the same this year.
For today's Advent music, I'm still with Handel and The Messiah with another good old favourite, 'And the glory of the Lord'.
I always enjoy following the score and warbling along to the alto part!
It snowed here again last night. It looked promising but has since turned to rain.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying listening to your music every morning (quietly, so as not to wake someone). Xx
At least you get the beauty of snow and then it goes so none of the inconvenience. That's nice.
DeleteI do enjoy doing the Advent music each year. There's some good stuff around.
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No snow here. Those flowers are extremely good value - still beautiful!
ReplyDeleteEvery year I think how wonderful your wood nativity figures are. xx
I dearly love them and Beth has promised to take care of them after I'm gone. When I bought them (about forty years ago now), I wanted them to become an heirloom and they have.
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There were a few flakes here yesterday for about 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers have lasted really well
Have a good day
They really have. They'll have to go tomorrow, I think, they are dropping petals quite a lot now, but they've been really lovely.
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Love the alstroemerias
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful flowers, aren't they?
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Beautiful wooden Nativity and haven't the flowers done well. I will be listening to your music later when I am making a few cards.x
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Really Really love all the advent music. I hope you don't mind i've copied your idea and am now sending some you tube carols via whatsapp to my daughter and her family in the republic of Ireland.to try and keep some contact with them . Unfortunately I was one of those who had a complete outage of all the virgin services and did not come back ( and then limited ) until about 6pm is last night. Just goes to show how much we now rely on the internet. Love reading your blog its brilliant
ReplyDeleteNot at all - I got the idea from someone else - it might have been Sue, I can't remember now.
DeleteIt was a nuisance, wasn't it, that outage. You were out for much longer than I was - in fact, I'm not sure I lost internet connection at all, just Apps.
All back to normal now and I hope yours is too.
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I love your nativity set. It's one of the nicest I've seen.
ReplyDeleteGreat choice for today's music choice. xx
Thanks, Eileen - I love it dearly.
DeleteI've had that music earworming all day - at least it is good music. :-)
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That nativity set is beautiful. It just looks so very special.
ReplyDeleteIt really is, Cherie, I just love it.
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Lovely nativity set. I listen to Handel's Messiah at Christmas and Easter. It always makes the holidays special.
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It is so lovely and so well known you really can sing along with it (very quietly in my case - no point scaring the neighbours)
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