Advent 2024 and Going Green For Christmas Plus This Week's Happenings

 I've got lots of Christmas tree decorations gathered over 40 years and only a smallish tree so a few years ago everything got sorted into different bags. Gold, silver and white, red, green, and finally old fashioned and handmade traditional, so I could swap around each year.

Looking back on the blog to see which had been used last year and found this is what I'd written after going to the one-off Christmas car boot sale.

 I went round looking for green things for the Christmas tree for next year and didn't find any. 

The traditional bits got used last year and  I must have been thinking of using green this year and there aren't many of them. So when I shopped I did a tour of all the charity shops in Stowmarket .......7 and then in Diss...........6  ............ and one in Eye on my way back from Diss and found these..........

After the usual battle with opening up the tree and fluffing up the branches and getting the lights spread out - (glad this is only a once-a year thing!) and putting on all the green and silver and white bits it looked like this. 

( There was one minor disaster, because that lovely long green decoration slipped as I tried to hang it up and it smashed into pieces on my new hard floor - being the only one that was glass - typical!)

Had to shift things around to find a different place for the tree this year as my chair is near the window now and putting the tree where I've had it before meant it was between me and the TV which didn't work of course.

I'm thinking green and silver are a bit 'cold' so I reckon it'll be back to red and gold next year.

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I've had a good week. Sorted out more Grandchildren presents, got all but one card finished - needs a letter to go with it - and all that were done got posted. Bought a few frozen vegetarian main meal type things that are only in the shops at Christmas and met up with my friend from Grammar School days for a coffee in the Osier cafe in the church. While there I took photos of the Christmas tree festival, I'm sure there were even more trees there than usual, it looked lovely and a man started playing carols on the piano while we were there which was nice. I'll put photos on the blog post tomorrow.

I finished the first 'Reading the Seasons' for Winter. Stella Gibbons- The Woods in Winter This is one of the books published by Dean Street Books in the Furrowed Middlebrow cover and I loved it. 

Seems the country is to be hit by Storm Darragh today. (I'm puzzled because we had Storm Bert but I didn't hear about a storm beginning with C ?) Anyway, there are Red Warnings for west coastal areas of the country for very strong winds and rain but over here in the East it might not be quite so bad. Hope they are right, as I'm supposed to be heading to the coast on Sunday and there are so many places on the cross country roads that get flooded. And thank heavens we've not got the huge snowfalls some parts of the US have had.

Stay safe blog friends 'in the west' and I'll be back tomorrow.

Sue