It must be near Christmas because houses and lawns all over our neighbourhood have sprouted fairy lights, illuminated deer (in profusion) and other sundry Christmas icons, such as that well know Christmas character, Poo Bear (see left). Houses and bushes are groaning under the weight of fairy lights. Some people only decorate their shrubs, others only their house eves. Some tend towards the tableau with deer and/or polar bear and/or Santa (with or without his sleigh). Folk with a more refined taste simply pick out a curving path in coloured lights. Others push the boat out and do the lot... its like Franklin Road on acid.
The best one is over the road from us. It is a large inflatable chimney with a Santa who rises periodically from the centre to wave, then disappears down the chimney again.... My photo isn't very good but you get the general idea.
Boris is really wanting us to have some sort of decoration, just to show that we 'believe' in Christmas. I'll have to look out the Christmas decoration box although I greatly fear it is destined to be a very poor showing next to the enthusiastic displays of our neighbours.
Yesterday I was invited on a tour of houses which had been decorated for Christmas - the "Lakeview Ladies Christmas Fellowship of Homes" to be exact. There were three groups of 25 ladies (75 of us in all), and we visited three homes (in rotation), all of them rather grand affairs. There was 'entertainment' at each - carols, a Christmas reading and a luncheon. Each 'homemaker' had gone to enormous trouble to decorate their home for Christmas, very tasteful... not a scrap of tinsel in sight! It was all gilt pine cones, pointsettiers, gold ribbon, candles and sprays of imitation pine. I was feeling quite a failure as a housewife until I overheard some of the ladies commenting they their own homes were far from being as immaculate or as well decorated. Well, that's a relief!
Boris is really wanting us to have some sort of decoration, just to show that we 'believe' in Christmas. I'll have to look out the Christmas decoration box although I greatly fear it is destined to be a very poor showing next to the enthusiastic displays of our neighbours.
Yesterday I was invited on a tour of houses which had been decorated for Christmas - the "Lakeview Ladies Christmas Fellowship of Homes" to be exact. There were three groups of 25 ladies (75 of us in all), and we visited three homes (in rotation), all of them rather grand affairs. There was 'entertainment' at each - carols, a Christmas reading and a luncheon. Each 'homemaker' had gone to enormous trouble to decorate their home for Christmas, very tasteful... not a scrap of tinsel in sight! It was all gilt pine cones, pointsettiers, gold ribbon, candles and sprays of imitation pine. I was feeling quite a failure as a housewife until I overheard some of the ladies commenting they their own homes were far from being as immaculate or as well decorated. Well, that's a relief!
Love Jacqueline
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