A Litopian Christmas

[Steve C]

This brings back happy days. Christmas Lunch and a cold walk to and from the pub are one of the few things I miss about England. Christmas day here in Thailand is just another day.

 

[Barbara]

This was my attempt at decorating the vegan option at the family X-mas do last year. Turns out pastry snowmen don't like heat either. They collapsed into a mess while in the oven.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

This was my attempt at decorating the vegan option at the family X-mas do last year. Turns out pastry snowmen don't like heat either. They collapsed into a mess while in the oven.

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Oh! I thought they were ducks!

 

[Barbara]

Oh! I thought they were ducks!

Oh, you're right, they DO look like ducks.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Dog woke me up at 4am this morning and, for once, I was delighted because this was the view from my window!

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

I tried several times to post a picture, but alas, my pic was too big or something. Anyway, every year I give away my book, The Runaway Sleigh, to whomever wants it. I guess I can't ship it from US Amazon to other places in the world, but I can give you a mobi, a pdf, or a word doc. Just let me know! By the way, I post this link so you can see what this is, not because I want you to buy it off of there. I want to GIVE it to you!

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[Hannah Faoileán]

I tried several times to post a picture, but alas, my pic was too big or something. Anyway, every year I give away my book, The Runaway Sleigh, to whomever wants it. I guess I can't ship it from US Amazon to other places in the world, but I can give you a mobi, a pdf, or a word doc. Just let me know! By the way, I post this link so you can see what this is, not because I want you to buy it off of there. I want to GIVE it to you!

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Can I please be greedy and ask for one?

 

[Emily]

Oh, and me too, please

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

Can I please be greedy and ask for one?

Sure! Is a Word Doc okay? Sorry it's not a book... hmmm. If I go to amazon.uk, can I then gift you a kindle copy?

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

Can I please be greedy and ask for one?

Here's a pdf. Hope that's okay

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

Oh, and me too, please

Here's a pdf. Merry Christmas to both you and Hannah F!

 

[Emily]

Thank you

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Here's a pdf. Hope that's okay

Thank you! I look forward to reading it.

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

Here's a few of photos of my grandkids this year.

 

[Emily]

So very cute, Victoria How many grandkids have you?

 

[Emily]

@Hannah F, this is gorgeous! Is it still snow g up there?

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

@Hannah F, this is gorgeous! Is it still snow g up there?

No, most of the snow has gone now apart from the mounds people made either side of their driveways or snowmen. There's supposed to be more coming. I love snow!!

 

[Emily]

I do too... we were supposed to have some today, but it's not cold enough yet (thankfully, in many ways!) Maybe we'll have a white Christmas yet...

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

It's the touch of the Irish which adds that extra dash of sparkle to this holy night.

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

So very cute, Victoria How many grandkids have you?

These five. I've been greatly blessed!

 

[Emily]

Just gorgeous

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

It's the touch of the Irish which adds that extra dash of sparkle to this holy night.

Thank you, Hannah. Wonderful rendition of Holy Night

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Dog woke me up at 4am this morning and, for once, I was delighted because this was the view from my window!

LOL! And I'm here wondering how little I can get away with wearing to work today, because it's going to be a scorcher...

 

[Andy D]

Everything about this is perfect:

 

[Emily]

We put up our Christmas tree last night (we get our tree from our postman every year, it's his side hustle).
Decorating the tree an always be a little fraught when people get a bit OCD about the decoration placement... But it always works out in the end...!
This year, as we started putting on the lights, we found a little abandoned nest tucked into the branches, so the fowl from the Nativity have moved over there for a while

 

[Andy D]

Looks lush! Love all the stockings going up the stairs too

Mine’s a bit more dinky, like Charlie Brown’s! Think I got it from Woolworths 20 plus years ago, and the Angel was left to rot on an old tree stuffed on the balcony of a flat I rented once! She could probably do with a make-over to be fair...

 

[Emily]

She could probably do with a make-over to be fair...

A new frock and hairdo?

 

[Andy D]

A new frock and hairdo?

I think so, and now that I look at her her wings are a little bent

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Summer is a lousy time to try to keep anything green from drying to a crisp in 10 minutes, so since we moved here, we've gone for the more ... artistic sort of tree. Every year we make something different from whatever stuff we can find lying around the house. This year, having just moved, the only 'junk' we had was some gabion mesh we haven't yet gotten around to filling with rocks. So that's what the tree is. LOL! It makes the most spectacular shadows and reflections on the walls and floor!

 

[Emily]

Oh, I absolutely LOVE that, @Robinne Weiss ! I've wanted to make a conical wire frame and cover with greenery asa tree for years, but I'm out-voted every time (and we don't want to disappoint the postman).