@lucysmam Do it! If you are careful it's possible. We tend to have everything except money, but there are ways and means and all things are possible.
@LillianGish So sorry to hear about your friend. In total agreement with @AgathaMystery about lay on surplus fat and @Bimblesalong about hand and body creams and gingins, I'd add good hair conditioner if doing cold cap. We have a drink used both for anti nausea and several other things, including as a response to both cancer and nowadays chemo induced nausea.
People should check with medical teams if interested as amongst other things it can thin blood, and boost the immune system (mine needs to be kept suppressed because of medications and medical team further suppressed my immune system and let me carry on using it.)
140ml milk (can use Vegan barrista)
Small piece of grated galangal root and small piece of grated fresh ginger
1/2 tsp of cinnamon and1 tsp of turmeric
Pinch of ground black pepper (boosts the turmerics effects)
Approx 1 tsp of honey or maple syrup or golden syrup ( sweetener - not required)
It's been in use for many generations here and while |I can't testify to all it's supposed properties, found it a good antidote to chemo nausea and for combating continuous metallic taste.
@Confusedmeanderings Love your crib and set. No one would thank you for replacing them, half the joy is old familiar favorites with all their history emerging annually. In our tradition the three Magi have whole retinues traveling with them and the shepherds, flocks of goats, sheep, accompanying dogs, and cows.
Nowadays we alternate between representing them all with three present laden camels who long ago wandered away from Balthazar, or three gloriously shiny silver snails who had to stand in, in emergency one year, that travel the room until they arrive at the tree on the 6th. They are very much loved.
@RainbowZebraWarrior Hope you both have a really wonderful time and find what you are looking for to achieve it.
Our beautiful big tree is prunned and reviving in a bucket of water recovering from it's previous use, life, and storm Darragh. Slight concerns over what it's been through, but tlc seems to have perked it up no end.
Before anymore can happen here, we have to 'bell the slayer' for safety and luck, make a new spider decoration for the tree, and hide die Weihnachtsgurke (gherkin) on the tree. (Our's is an ancient Russian one that's survived four wars and much else, with half plain half mercuric glass to assist it's hiding.)
Traditions reaffirmed, the lights can start going on, and then tinsel, and then decorations, which have to go on in specific order. It's a two three day process, and I still have to work, and as with @piscofrisco nothing's yet wrapped here either. We're running late...
Pic is Brugge parade, quiet close to our traditions