On the 6th day of Christmas

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me:

Six geese laying…not true you say…and you’d be right. This is a voucher which entitles you to see a movie after the dawn has trod…get it!!

Mathilda on her first Christmas

Mel knitted these delightful garments for a very special little girl.

We spent today with Mathilda and her family. It was warmish in the hills but I know two girls that enjoyed each others company in spite of the weather!

On the 5th day of Christmas

 

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Five gold rings…well one ring actually(and its silver!) its used to attach something to something else which is kind of golden in colour…sort of!!

 And because it was rather a warm evening...but who can really complain about high temperatures this summer....a dip in the ocean seemed called for.

A beautiful sunset to end a wonderful day!

on the fourth day of Christmas

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me four colly birds. I haven’t a clue what colly birds are,do you? But they seem to know!!?! Maybe playing a turn of this game might make us wiser…or not…wouldn’t hurt to try it!!

On the third day of Christmas

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me three french hens . I ask you three hens from France, as if we haven’t enough trouble remembering all the birds that visit our yard. Anyway before they flew back to Paris!! they left  you these books …useful to identify other feathered friends!

On the second day of Christmas

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me two turtle doves .... but they wouldn’t stay and play cause they said they felt we had enough birds in our yard already!! But they knew how much you like to play games so they left you this as their “calling” card(game of backwords)

On the 1st day of Christmas

We have a tradition going back just a few years where we celebrate the twelve days of Christmas in a fun family orientated way. this is not to take away from the faith filled celebrations that also occur over this time period, nor is it to explain the possible significance of these 12 days to those of our faith in England of old, it is simply to extend the joy we feel in a way that is significant for the younger members of our family.God invented laughter and I'm sure there was a great deal of it in the Holy family as the Christ child grew.

 

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me

A partridge in a pear tree.

Sorry but the partridge flew off to find his family…

But he left behind his picture and “somethings” fruity inside!

Christmas at the park

I recently found this letter I wrote to Connie Foss of “Good Life and Literature” which was published in volume 2 of the winter edition for 1999. It was interesting to look back on….from so many years ago; this is as extract from it.

 

“…there’s a general tidy-up and we pack for our annual picnic in botanic Park. 

This is a family tradition and although we have shared it with others, some of our best times have been when we’ve been there ‘on our own’. 

 Mind you we share the park with many other families….and sometimes after our meal we take a stroll amongst the gardens.

For lunch we carry a variety of ‘cool’ food: cold roast chicken, sliced ham, wedges of home-made pizza, spicy paprika potatoes, and a leafy green salad. Also we take special fruit that we don’t have at other times; dark red juicy cherries, 

 

green luscious grapes, nectarines(my favorite), apricots, plums and watermelon!

We bring sports equipment or games to play and all happily take part(even mum!)”

This year we took our celebration to the hills. The sun shone brightly...but not too hot and the flowers we strolled amongst afterward were delightful

There were times to ponder and reflect rest after a rich meal.

















another day to add to our scrapbook of memories.

Christmas morning