Wednesday 7 January 2026 post begun 1605hrs (4:05pm) GMT

 

It's THAT day. First thing this morning I removed the front door wreath, pulled the candle bridge from the front window, packed away the holly berries candle holders, the Christmas stockings, the Skandi Father Christmas, and the wooden block count-down calendar. I un-decorated the Christmas Tree - good heavens that was quickly done! The hardest part of the tree un-decorating was carefully removing the light string. 

 

About those lights - the set was sold as 'cluster' but arrived as single spikes. Not what I'd wanted but nice enough so we used them and will use them again. 

 

My decision to use one colour baubles on the tree ended up being rather nice.

 

We liked the way it turned out so well we will do this one colour scheme again Christmas 2026 in red. Or blue. 

 

(if Russia doesn't nuke us before then thanks to Two-Tier Keir signing an agreement with the rest of the ridiculously named 'coalition of the willing' to put British boots on Ukraine soil IF a peace agreement is reached. Oh, and the USCG seizing that Venezuelan tanker off the coast of Iceland - a vessel reflagged as Russian midway through voyage and the subsequent news British military assisted the Americans - the Russians aren't happy about that, either.)

 

All in the whole process took two hours, from un-decorating to closing the boxes and putting them into the storage bags then taking the bags out to the insulated shed. Not bad considering it used to take me days to fully un-Christmas the house. 

 

posted 7 Jan 2026 1635hrs GMT