If your not a fan of Christmas then I
suggest you stop reading this post, for me it is one of the best holidays of
the year. Weirdly I enjoy the build up to Christmas day itself more than the
actual day, visiting the Christmas markets, buying the presents, seeing friends
etc.
This year I've been fortunate to visit two
Christmas markets, Winter Wonderland and the Bath Christmas market which for
anyone who has been following me on here or on Twitter for a while will know
that Bath is one of my favourite places. Many reasons why but too many to go
into now. Bath Christmas market offers a whole collection of I believe about
100 stalls throughout the lower end of the city as well as a very busy and
bustling crowd. My two favourite stalls are the Macaroon stall, which always
offers about 15 different flavours of Macaroon to choose from with my favourite
being the Salted Caramel. The other being a stall by a company called
Pollyfields, a company that this year also opened a permanent store in the
city. They sell dried oranges and cinnamon stick decorations, candles, wreaths,
pouperi etc and you can smell them from a mile off!
The build up to the day as everyone knows
includes buying presents for people, for some this feels like a chore and
believe me I know the feeling when you've searched high and low but still can't
find a gift for that one person. However for me this is one of the things that
I enjoy doing the most, individuals such as my best friend or my sister are the
best people to shop for and if anything I get carried away - especially with my
sister who's Birthday is also at the end of November. I love going the extra
mile to ensure I get that perfect present for someone because it makes it all
worthwhile when they open it. Last year I took a risk and brought a Tassimo
coffee machine for my parents not knowing how into it they would get and I feel
that they now couldn't imagine life without it. The next step is the wrapping
of the presents which for me requires a good week of evenings on Pinterest
coming up with some inventive ideas on how to make them look great. Adding tree
decorations, string and stacking them in a pile was just a few things I did
last year. This year I have just gone for a very basic and traditional plain
brown wrapping with snowmen printed all over because lack of time was a thing.
I still searched around online though for the best Christmas labels which I
purchased from Typo.
This year we are having a small Christmas
and so each member of my family has been assigned a course of the meal to organize.
I'm
in charge of dessert so of course back to Pinterest I go and I have decided to
go ahead with making a vanilla cheesecake which could include some fruit on top
and some Pinterest inspired Strawberry Christmas trees (If successful there
will be a how-to blog post going up).
There’s a tradition in my town that on
Christmas day everyone heads down to the harbour for the annual Christmas day harbour
swim. I can confirm that I attend each year as a spectator as oppose to a participator
but if its not already obvious enough then on average around 300-400 people,
some in crazy costumes, swim from one side of the harbour to the other side. Its
all for fun because the water is ice cold however they have a competitors round
where you can race against each other.
(So I forgot to post this...its been sat in my phone for a while and I didn't just want to waste it so...heres to 363 days until Christmas 2017!!
Oh and the Cheesecake and Strawberry Christmas trees shall not be going up as they were slightly disastrous)
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