 In the 20 years since Love Actually was released, I've rediscovered a love of Christmas movies.
Part of me harks back to watching White Christmas with my Grandmother. Cuddled up on the sofa, sipping proper cocoa made with jersey milk. It would be so thick you could use it as grout, but it was rich, creamy and made, as with everything my Grandmother did, with love.
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 I’m down to just three physical Christmas cards a year now. Gone are the years when I would make 20th or so cards.
Now, both of my parents are gone. Hubby’s family don’t exchange cards (apart from one sister) and my Niblings are environmentally conscious. The last bastion of of physical cards was the office but the move to remote and hybrid killed that too. I first started to make Christmas cards back in the late 80s. This was out of necessity. I was suddenly living on my own and had very little money. Today, was a Spa day, a present from work for our team after completing a massive project. I was all warm and relaxed from my massage, snuggled in my complimentary robe, knitting and doing my other favourite activity, in these situations; listening to snatches of conversations. The two ladies, opposite we’re talking about Christmas and work secret Santas. One of them asked if the other if they knew of this German tradition where you take a nice, unwanted gift, wrap it and then you play a game to see who will get which gift.
UPDATE - want to search for a Christmas movie and see how I rated it? Then use my new spreadsheet with all the movies watched, to date, and my ratings, along with links to find out more. Go to the spreadsheet →  The 15th of November has come round and it's time to kick off my annual Christmas movie a day marathon. Ok, so not really annual as it's only the second year I've done this. Last year I managed to watch 63 movies (18 in November and 45 in December). This year I'm introducing my yarn🧶rating of how good it is to watch multiplied by the ability to watch whilst pursing your favourite yarn / thread / string activity. 71 = Total Watched To Date
23 = November 48= December |
