7 Days Winter 2009 mosaic

7 Days: Day 7 – Merry Christmas

All glammed up for the festivities, ready to eat great food and be with the fambly. Well done on another great week everyone! It’s always a pleasure to hang out with you all. Even Sarkasmo. I’ll have the mosaic up … next decade.

7 Days – Day 6: Jingle Bells carousel

Watching my Jingle Bells carousel that came from Hellbrunn Christmas market in Salzburg. Now I suppose I really should go and help in the kitchen, where there’s a ham that needs my attention and parmesan is waiting to be grated.

7 Days: Day 5 – Silver

Suzy makes a guest appearance with me here, holding Damian’s candelabra (one of many, apparently – he’s just THAT posh) by the Christmas tree. The three of us went to a Christmas singsong at a local pub and sang ourselves hoarse for three hours with a fun mix of carols and secular songs, finishing with [...]

7 Days: Day 4 – I see me

A swanky hand-crafted makeup pouch and a little mirror were my gifts from Lauren this year. That woman is totally showing us all up with all her handmade cards, classy gift wrapping and seamstress skills.

7 Days: Day 3 – Nuts to the postman

The gift I wanted to get Debbie for Christmas is best priced across the other side of the Atlantic and so I enlisted help from Bethany to place the order and then I’d pay her back (and we know how easy that was). Being a generous soul, Bethany enclosed a little something for me in [...]

7 Days: Day 2 – Treat

Making treats for the birds out of melted lard, chopped up lamb and fat, mixed together with a big bunch of bird seed. The ordinary bird feeders have been refilled and when the coconut half and fir cones full of the lardy seed mixture have hardened, the birds can have those to peck at too [...]