A grown-up Christmas

[Moirarosesgarden]

We have no kids in our family (by choice) so it’s just me, DH and my parents. Oh and the dog of course! We all get on so have booked a house in Cornwall for Christmas week with by parents, but apart from daily bracing beach walks how else can we make the time fun?

Any ideas to bring a bit of festive spirit to a rented house?
Any mini decorations we can buy to make the house feel more Christmassy? Recommendations for games for four adults?
And anything to make gift giving more imaginative than a card with a voucher in it?

I've got kids but haven't ever really used MN for kids stuff!

This question gets asked all the time. Look at the huge range of topics and only a handful are actually about children!

If you must know, I originally came to mumsnet when TTC. It never happened for us, but no need to feel pity as luckily having a child wasn’t the be all and end all for me! We probably could have gone the IVF route but I didn’t want it that much to try! So now you know!

Anyway(!) some great ideas here so thanks all!

If you are doing Secret Santa wrap the items in a lot of paper to confuse people what it is and adds more mystery. There were 3 of us and it still was fun.

Some great ideas here, love the pictures of the grazing boards.
Totally agreed about jigsaws, for years I rather sneered at jigsaws but now am hooked and have stockpiled a load for the winter months.