Update on 12th Night

A lot of comments on the last post were asking about 12th Night, and so I googled it and I found a site at this school in Kent: Woodlands Junior School. They asked for people to send postcards to their students from wherever they live in the world, so I thought it would be nice for anyone interested to read the excellent entry in their really informative website as well as maybe sending them a postcard. (If anyone spots that I got it wrong, and that I should have taken my decorations down yesterday, pretend you never noticed).

Also, I've put up a link to Free Rice, which I had fun playing. I managed to get up to 48. Have a go if you like, it's free, and every time you get a word right they donate 20 grains of rice through the UN to someone who's hungry. Improving word power while helping to feed the hungry seems like a win/win situation to me!

The link is at the top of the left hand side of this page. I can't figure out how to join the link and this banner together.

Twelfth Night

Tonight is twelfth night, and at midnight Christmas will officially be over. Also, all decorations need to be down by midnight or else (what, I don't know), so I'm busy packing stuff away any-old-how, as long as it's down it counts as gone. If I get it out and sort it out tomorrow, that only counts as organizing and tidying. All I have left to do is take the Christmas tree out, and take down the outside icicle lights.

Invariably I find something that my eagle eyes missed about a week after Christmas, and then I have to leave it around all year or else (what, I don't know). Where did this superstition come from? I just don't know! Last year I forgot to pack a little jingle bell that was hanging on the banister post, so I left it there all year, and each time I'd pass with a wide load (ironed clothes, stuff to be moved upstairs, suitcases) it would jingle and remind me that it was the one that was left behind! This is my chance to put it away, but I got used to it's friendly little chime, so it's staying there for another year!

I just took a picture to show on this blog, and realised that Jingle Bell has been Reindeerised!

Someone has added antlers and a red nose since the Christmas Holidays started. It used to be a plain little bell, I'm sure. Here's a close-up...

How very very strange.......