For the first year in a while we're going to be spending Christmas at home. Partly due to financial constraints through buying the house, but also because it's going to be different.
When we went back to the UK at Christmas last year we were lucky enough to buy a Christmas tree for a bargain price. It's a black, six-foot tall, fibre-optic lit beauty with a staggering array of copper and gold baubles with which to decorate it. It also wouldn't fit in our luggage to return home!
Fortunately, having just returned from another trip back home, we were able to bring it back with us and it was only made finally possible by my parents lending us a conveniently handy seven-foot long travelling bag that must have originally been intended for transporting a surfboard or Dracula.
Suffice to say that it made it through Customs, Indonesian traffic and Lufthansa's ineptitude and currently resides in our spare bedroom, patiently waiting for December the first. There is none of this 12 days before, 12 days after rubbish in our house, the minute Halloween decorations are down it's open season on Christmas. But there does need to be a tad of decorum and so the only thing I've done so far is check the solar powered fairy lights for the papaya tree in our front garden are working, which they are. Everything else will wait for the first.
I usually bring back some bits and pieces and for my current Business English class I was able to find Advent calendars in Tescos. These were greeted with a mixture of "wow, chocolate" to "ah, it's a puzzle" A little elicitation later and everyone was under firm instruction to take it home, put it in the fridge (English chocolate melts quicker than Indonesian chocolate) and not open number 1 until the first day of December.
I would really like to make some minced pies but it's not that easy to find the ingredients, plus the booze is expensive but I think we'll shell out for a couple of bottles of red wine and turn it into Mulled Wine and invite people round to help us decorate. I think I'll also make up a plate of turkey and cranberry sandwiches! Now, where did I put that Glee Christmas album.......
When we went back to the UK at Christmas last year we were lucky enough to buy a Christmas tree for a bargain price. It's a black, six-foot tall, fibre-optic lit beauty with a staggering array of copper and gold baubles with which to decorate it. It also wouldn't fit in our luggage to return home!
Fortunately, having just returned from another trip back home, we were able to bring it back with us and it was only made finally possible by my parents lending us a conveniently handy seven-foot long travelling bag that must have originally been intended for transporting a surfboard or Dracula.
Suffice to say that it made it through Customs, Indonesian traffic and Lufthansa's ineptitude and currently resides in our spare bedroom, patiently waiting for December the first. There is none of this 12 days before, 12 days after rubbish in our house, the minute Halloween decorations are down it's open season on Christmas. But there does need to be a tad of decorum and so the only thing I've done so far is check the solar powered fairy lights for the papaya tree in our front garden are working, which they are. Everything else will wait for the first.
I usually bring back some bits and pieces and for my current Business English class I was able to find Advent calendars in Tescos. These were greeted with a mixture of "wow, chocolate" to "ah, it's a puzzle" A little elicitation later and everyone was under firm instruction to take it home, put it in the fridge (English chocolate melts quicker than Indonesian chocolate) and not open number 1 until the first day of December.
I would really like to make some minced pies but it's not that easy to find the ingredients, plus the booze is expensive but I think we'll shell out for a couple of bottles of red wine and turn it into Mulled Wine and invite people round to help us decorate. I think I'll also make up a plate of turkey and cranberry sandwiches! Now, where did I put that Glee Christmas album.......
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