wrapping presents and making ones own gift tags, even presents and decorations, and today I made time to wrap up presents for family overseas, and finding none of my tags over from last year - doesn't one always buy too many. You keep them safely for the whole year, only to discover when you finally go to use them, that you simply cannot find them. Isn't that so, hey??
So, having card, a photograph, a Stanley knife, and good thick cutting board, I embarked on the sometime difficult task of creating an own individual and unique Christmas item. I'd been in all day awaiting delivery of books which, ultimately didn't arrive, for some unknown reason, leaving myself with very little time to find something suitable in the nearest shopping experience, a large supermarket store, and unfortunately for me, although they had seasonal greetings cards and chocolates and tins of festive biscuits, not any present tags, which is how and why I came to design and make my own.
And actually, they're not bad!
Monday evening was my book club get-together and after arriving late, had a thoroughly enjoyable discussion of this week's book - Claire Tomalin's, Charles Dickens - A Life, which came out last year. I've only managed to consume about a dozen pages but already I'm finding it a brilliant read. We shall carry on our discussions next week too, for several members were unfortunately detained elsewhere.
I'd taken a couple of critical observations of the author and her book to our meeting and read out bits of them, which was fun; and at home I was keeping back a newspaper article on the latest film version of Great Expectations which is out any day now. I must say, I'm really looking forward to viewing it and comparing it to that wonderful earlier film with Edith Evans as Miss Haversham and John Mills as Pip. In this latest offering, Helen Bonham Carter is cast as Miss Haversham. I'm quite a fan of her performances - did you see her in A Room with a View, wasn't she good? And I must tell you, I have the very slightest connection with the accomplished actress, for many years ago, as a Young Conservative, I'd danced at a masked ball held in the Bonham Carter's family home in West Sussex.
My fifteen minutes of fame??
Monday and Tuesday day light hours were exhausted by organizing my change of address notifications to family, friends and all and sundry, waiting for books to arrive and walking Alice. And today we had so much rain, it was good to be having to be on hand for my book deliveries, even if they didn't arrive!
Perhaps tomorrow they will?
The dear SO's daughter was flooded out of her house today, and her neighbours too. Thankfully, not too greatly, but certainly enough for them to seek a home elsewhere, while the waters subside and their homes dry out, and repairs put in hand. Amazingly, I'd no idea so much rain had fallen and it just goes to prove, how localised our weather systems can be.
Tomorrow, it's posting day, if I can get out, of course. and if not, He will have to post them for me; and my parcels for Australia.
A busy day again, I think....and we're still moving furniture into our new home and sorting out parcels of forgotten objects. He's fervently hoping I'll find more "stuff" to squash down into his vacuum-condensed bags.....isn't down-sizing an awful bore?
Cheerio,
Daisy
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