My friend Marissa came to see us yesterday so we walked into town to enjoy the small but cute Christmas market and then waited an absurdly long time for the annual Christmas parade to come by, which turned out to be rather small and unimpressive, but at least we could say we saw it… …
Yesterday I decorated our flat with our Christmas decorations. We chose not to get a tree this year (which means, I decided I could do without it, Rasmus is not really a fan any year) so I used the tree decorations we have a little more creatively, hanging them from the bannisters on the stairs,…
Well, we’re five days into advent which means the Christmas music has been playing for five days (on and off, I don’t want to get sick of it, so it still gets mixed in with a little Civil Wars, a little Ben Webb, a little Weepies). I am loving the website, Noisetrade, at the moment…
It was one day late, but our home has an advent wreath! I put this one together yesterday afternoon with four newly-purchased candles from the supermarket and lots of little things we had in the house already. There’s some tree bark and branches, two glass Christmas trees, gold acorn tree decorations, some wooden deer cut-outs…
Yesterday was the first Sunday of advent. The tradition of advent calenders is well known, although they usually begin on the 1st December. My sweet mother-in-law has the last few years sent us an “adventpakke” with gifts to open on each Sunday in advent. It arrived on Thursday, our first parcel to arrive since we…
Photos taken by my talented Uncle Neil. Facial expressions blamed fully on my mum’s genes. For evidence, see here.