Is it still Christmas with you?

[OpheIiaBaIIs]

Definitely is here! I've just had Christmas cake and coffee from my shiny new machine for breakfast with the tree twinkling away. This weekend we'll be catching up on Christmas TV we've missed, eating the rest of the Christmas food and having our Twelfth Night Party before we reluctantly pack everything away and DH goes back to work on Monday. It still feels very festive here!

So many of our neighbours have taken their decorations and lights down - the street that was so twinkly and pretty a few days ago looks so bare and dreary now, the spoilsports . I leave lots of fairy lights up through January because I think the darkest part of the year needs them. And I leave some up all year, with extras at Easter which we 'do' like a mini-Christmas. Very much of the belief that Christmas is a season, not a day!

Feeling a tad griefy that it's coming to an end but looking forward to a last lovely weekend! How about you?

Our tree is still up and decorated!! We're considering keeping it up until Candlemas (2nd Feb) but will probably take it down this week.

It feels a bit odd as Christmas is really over now but it's cheerful and bright and January is long and dark!

Our tree, cards and inside lights and decorations usually stay up till Candlemas by family tradition. The tree has just started to drop a few needles this year, probably because someone, mentioning no names has forgotten to water it recently, so we'll have to see if it makes it that far this year.

Mulled wine, pp? What a good idea, especially in this stormy weather.

The very decorated house (as mentioned above) still had all the decorations out on Friday (not lit )

DD went past the house , she confirmed this .

I'm not sure what the neighbours must think
"Erm Brian, you know it's like mid January , are you leaving them there till next Christmas ? "