A belated Merry Christmas!

How terrible - I haven't written a blog since October. Crazy. I'm not really sure why - work was very busy, we've had quite a few visitors, I had nothing to say or show that was a patch on what fellow bloggers share... ANYWAY - practically new year, and hence the time for resolutions. I resolve to write more blog posts, and to do some of the housey things I'm always talking about!

We've been having a lovely Christmas break and, counting weekends too, I've got 17 days away from the office. Brilliant, eh? We had a London Christmas this year, with my Mum coming up from Dorset to stay with us. On Christmas day itself we went around to some good friends who conveninently live about 2 minutes away, and ate with them. So, Christmas without having to cook - even better!

To ease myself back into the blogging habit I just thought I'd share a few pics of our Christmas decor, our ever growing kitten, and the dining room table around at my friends house...I love decorating our tree each year, bringing out the big box of decorations, many of which my mum and I made together when I was small. We add to it each year too, and I love having a mixture of things on the tree. I'm afraid we don't have themes or colours just a big mixture of Christmas memories and campness (pear necklace wearing festive frogs, anyone?!) The big, slightly scruffy cardboard Santa (or Santy if you're Irish) on top of the tree came from the boy's childhood, so that sits atop each year too!

Our Christmas dining room table -








Lovely Christmas bunting - a present from a friend


Millie the kitten found the tree quite exciting, but to date has been very good and not pulled the whole thing over. She does like to play with the decorations though!


She also loves paper...and ribbons...so wrapping presents took a bit longer than normal


A cute garland with wooden hearts and pegs, that holds some of our cards




Our own table - we had friends to dinner on Christmas Eve

A kitten update

I thought it was high time I shared a couple more pics of our little kitten, who isn't nearly so little anymore. We're still completely smitten and spend far too much time talking about the cat and her wellbeing! Isn't she gorgeous though?!





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Holiday

In the morning (or middle of the night... cab is collecting us at 4.15am) we're off on our holidays, so no updates for about 10 days I'm afraid. I shall be perusing flea markets, swimming in the sea, reading books and generally chilling out in the sun. I hope.

I'm on a different computer today, otherwise I'd post a new picture of our little kitten. She's not so little any more, and getting very cheeky. She's worked out how to climb up the curtains and swing from them.... Also, she's trying to chew everything at the moment. Do cats teeth? (sp?) I hope all her baby teeth don't fall our whilst we're away. That'll give our lovely friend who's moving in to care for Millie a real shock!

Have a lovely couple of weeks! x

Kitten time

The most exciting thing to happen in our home in the last week (or ever, in fact) is the addition of our gorgeous little kitten! We're completely smitten... even if she is gradually ripping the sofa to bits!

Alas, this little furry ball of cuteness does mean no more lilies for me - the vet told us yesterday, when we took her to get her first set of injections, that the pollen from lilies causes liver failure in cats. Who knew?! It also means that the place is covered in cat toys and bits of shredded tissue, but no matter, we adore her. She is a very stylish, and thoroughly loveable, addition to our home! Her Selfridges cat bed is quite cute too! (Slightly obscured in this picture by a rather horrible old cushion cover that she seems to quite like)

We've had a steady stream of visitors all weekend coming to play with the newest, and most entertaining, member of our family!



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