Wreath

[lathany]

Today the tree(s) and decorations went up. Beatrice coped rather well with Mummy being a tyrant over the decorating; although I think she still has plans to put the pink ribbon back on the big tree. Plus we received our first Christmas card (from Aunty Carol, whose daughter's wedding we're going to in a week's time - among other things she mentioned that the daughter is due in February). Additionally, it was a day of DIY - bateleur put the curtains in the spare room back up and we made the corner shelves for the space at the top of the stairs (they now have small Xmas tree on them, along with a set of seven russian dolls - the actual doll kind, Cats Eye, a bunch of Bond books and some Katherine Kerr).

I've ordered some more furniture for the house now that I have some time at home coming (and can therefore wait in for delivery). It's cheapish Argos stuff - but will do the job. At which point I'll get to find out whether the house has enough shelf space to store all my books from my parents' house (primarily Enid Blytons) or whether I'll have to accept that I have too many books and give some away.

Although it's too early to buy the food (or so I have to keep telling myself :-)), well apart from the nice chocolates I've ordered from the Chocolate Tasting Club, bateleur and I have been choosing wines for Christmas. We've bought our favourite Merlot from Tesco (which, we were happy to discover on special), bateleur has now chosen some Chateauneuf du Papes (also on special) and, yesterday, (having a free lunchtime) I travelled to Fortnum and Mason to buy some Sancerre (white). Why on earth Fortnum and Mason? Because someone else (it may have been telpher and huggyrei) bought us a bottle of it and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Therefore I was going to play safe and buy more of the same from the same place.

I really ought to find a wonderful white in Tesco. Or our local off-licence (which, I'm ashamed to say I can't remember but I think might be Bottoms Up). And I will - eventually.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

among other things she mentioned that the daughter is due in February

Just to clarify - this doesn't mean my cousin is going to be born two months after she gets married. There's another granddaughter on the way.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

:-p

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Careful now... cheap Chateauneuf du Papes can be awful. You probably already know this, but if you don't, it's a fair warning.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

What range is cheap and what is expensive?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

I'd be inclined to ignore any bottle under say £12.

Expensive Chateauneuf du Papes can effortlessly run into the region of several hundred quid a bottle.