Week 50
Dogs in the dark
Hello!
How glittery and Christmassy has your week been? Mine has been…not at all. We are still in recovery from getting building work done - who knew it was such an upheaval? Well, everyone I guess… but the idea that we were going to return home and leap into Christmas mode was a fantasy, it turns out. Maybe the Christmas box will come down from the loft this week.
Still Christmas is happening all around. I’m loving spotting the Christmas trees and lights on the street and dreaming about joining them soon, and my mum has made me a Christmas cake. So Christmas is happening with or without me. I hope to join in shortly.
Also Christmassy is the fact that that my book, The Almanac 2025, is now clambering up the charts. Phew! I worry every year that my luck might have run out…but I do know that it does this because it is just a great Christmas present for so many different people. It ticks lots of boxes. Your auntie might like one, and also your brother, and that lovely neighbour who did that nice thing. Find it below!
This is our weekly community post in which I tell you something seasonal that I have spotted or done or eaten this week, and then you tell me yours. At the end of the month I weave them all into a big monthly poem and it’s all a bit magic.
Here’s mine:
Dogs in the dark
Midwinter is nearly upon us and I know this by the darkness in the park in the mornings, and the fact that all the dogs run around in those glowy collars. I don’t have them for my own dogs yet but I love to see all the little circles of light legging it around in the dark. I must get some. I was reduced to chasing other people’s dogs around with my phone for this photo, which is why it is extremely artistic.
I also know though that the period for using these collars is short. And quite soon we wont need them again. It’s so odd that it will soon start to get light again.
That’s it from me. Please leave your comments below and force me into the Christmassy mood: what have you done/seen/eaten/made in the past week that felt particularly ‘this week of the year’?
I held my final evening yoga circle of the year, an early celebrating of the winter solstice and Christmas. We had Yogi Christmas Tea, almond macaroons, and sang carols as well as weaving the themes of Advent (hope, peace, love and joy) through our practice💜✨🎄🌙🕊️
This week is all about the sadness /relief that the Christmas madness of weekly events away from home and mad dashes to the post is drawing to an end. I'm a Maker and as a lovely friend put it 'you enable the rest of us to have a lovely Christmas'. I scrabbled my tree up a few days ago, but the rest of the decs are in their boxes, along with the Christmas cards. I'm trying really hard to be Christmassey - another lovely friend has made my door wreath, cards still plop through the letter box and I took my elderly Dad to a delightful Christmas tree festival, but...but...even my first Bombardino of the season and z festive 12 days of Christmas yoga session hasn't broken through yet, so I'm looking forward to reading everyone else's festive offerings!