The festive season is upon us. The Christmas adverts are well and truly on TV and "I'm a celebrity" has started. 'Last Christmas' by Wham has even been heard playing, which means we are in full swing. Most years I start our preparations straight after Remembrance Sunday. Not this year. In fact I was interviewed by a UK magazine back in the ...
Christmas
What’s In The Box? Giveaway!
I'm not a massive consumer 365 days of the year. Understatement. When it comes to Christmas, and the giving of gifts we do give some gifts to close family. But over the last few years gift giving has reduced dramatically. Why? I find the commercial side of Christmas rather depressing. Being a trained professional marketing person, I understand it. I get ...
A Chaotic Food Waste Friday
You may have noticed I haven't been around my virtual home much over the last week or so. You may not. There was no open house/blog yesterday, but I did find time to start a conversation over at Facebook. Thank you for joining in. My decision to take Christmas off this year has already proved itself to be a good one. As Rachel said herself "Life happens ...
Arriving At Christmasland 2014
This weekend the Wright's arrived at Christmasland. We usually land the first weekend in December. And this was...the first weekend in December. The annual pilgrimage to the local forest took place Saturday morning. It did feel we arrived a little late this year. In fact we were told that the majority of the larger trees had sold out the weekend ...
Open House / Getting Christmassy
**Please note I have decided to edit today's open house blog post. I didn't think carefully enough about it - it's my error. Thank you for the 2 previous comments (it's appreciated you popped by! thank you! I read them and they contained great advice - if you'd like to comment again please do) but I've started from scratch. Thank you for ...
Did You Stir-Up Sunday? We Didn’t.
I do love traditions. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) Stir-up Sunday is one of the essential British traditions. Introduced to the Britain by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. We didn't participate this year. Do you recall I'm taking Christmas off? That means no home-made Christmas puddings. No gathering together to stir the pudding in ...
Open House / I’m Christmas Shopping
Open house is a little early this week because tomorrow (Thursday) is my one and only Christmas shopping day this year. I'll be out early. Literally hitting the town centre at 9am. It's my one (self-imposed) opportunity to purchase anything non-handmade. I've made my list, and checked it twice! It's not a huge list, as I'm sure you'd expect. And it ...
Kicking Off Christmas 2014
It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas. Okay so it's still November. But as I explained in last Thursdays post - our Christmas preparations typically start just after Remembrance Sunday. This year we are doing things a little differently. And also, in some cases, the same. Christmas always kicks off with charity at Chez Wright. ...
Taking Christmas Off
Usually the day after Remembrance Sunday I start our Christmas preparations. These preparations normally kick off with the making of the Christmas Chutney. Not this year. I love our family traditions. I'm a big believer in developing traditions and creating memories. But I'm also cautious of doing things 'for the sake of it' and am keen to prioritise ...
Packing Up To Leave Christmasland
We've had a lovely Christmas at Chez Wright - We hope you've had one too? Lot's of wonderful new memories to add to the bank. But slowly we're starting to pack up in anticipation of leaving Christmasland. (This is how we left Christmasland 2 years ago - it's funny looking back, I had hardly any hair in 2011. Last Christmas I was too ill to blog ...