Advancing crabwise towards Christmas

[shewhomust]

• We have a tree: indecently early, it seems to me, but we were at Sainsbury's, and there were trees outside of a pleasing size and rotundity, and it seemed pointless to be stubborn and insist on waiting until the last minute, when there would be no choice and we'd be landed with a tree that was both too tall and too scraggy. It's not as if they don't cut them all at the same time anyway. So we have a tree, sitting on the back step, waiting until we are ready to bring it indoors - provided the wind doesn't carry it off first.


• The overseas cards have been posted, and a random collection of others: so we can claim to have started sending the cards. This is not enough, and there will be a mad panic later. Likewise, several presents have been bought, and I have identified a time (Thursday afternoon) when I might conceivably manage to go shopping in Newcastle. This is not enough...


• I have done the first stage of making the Christmas cake: and since this is a complicated process, involving a cut-up of two separate recipes, not to mention an element of whim and improvisation, it might usefully have a post to itself, so that next year I won't have to do the calculations from scratch all over again.

Comments

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

What time are you planning to be in town on Thursday afternoon? I will be finishing work some time around 4.15-ish and going to buy comics and, potentially, also doing some of the Christmas shopping thang. Will you be ready for a cup of coffee around then?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That's very tempting.

I plan to get in as soon after lunch as I can, and we're going to Gail's storytelling thing at the University Gallery, which starts at six...

So if I remember to take the phone, you could track me down - yes, that would be lovely.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

I'll ring you this evening and remind you to put it in your bag...