Gift message

I've ordered a couple of gifts lately to be sent directly to the recipient as I'm not going to be seeing them. I'm sure I'm not the only one doing it this year with the pandemic and all. So I was surprised to see how difficult this was. Not the ordering, but the ability to …

Christmas Gift Guide – Entrepreneur style

Every year, around this time mum asks me what I want for Christmas, the usual reply is "I don't know, what do you want?". We're both the kind of people who buy what we want when we need it making the giving of the gift a challenge. In the past, I have resorted to tickets …

Season’s Greetings

Was tempted to do a rant today, but that didn't feel very festive. Then I thought about not doing a post, as it's Christmas Eve and this is time to be spent with family and doing last minute present shopping / wrapping. But then I did all give you a long summer holiday from writing, …

Suspicious package

Ok, so maybe the package wasn't that suspicious but how it made it to me seems to be. I'm going to keep the retailer anonymous at this stage but those Eagle-eyed amongst you might be able to work it out! So, like any good story, I'm going to do this in chronological order. To begin, …

Canapes

As we're well into Christmas party season, today's post is dedicated to canapes. I'll be honest, every Christmas invite is a yes as I love canapes and I'm a social butterfly so I've been spreading my wings all December. At one recent Christmas party, I learnt the origin of the word canape. Apparently, it's of …

Meat-Free Christmas

Lol no. It might have been a Monday, but meat was eaten. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without turkey, sausage meat stuffing, pigs in blankets - or in my case naked pigs as I don't like bacon. It's not been the best kept secret that Christmas falls on a Monday this year, so I've had a …

Two Tree Family

I've started to notice a growing Christmas trend, the two tree family. People have more than one Christmas tree in their house. Why? Do you expect Father Christmas to leave presents under both trees? Do you have the one in the window really well decorated to impress the neighbours but a grim one in your …

Television Christmas

I can't be the only person who has noticed shows like to decorate their sets around this time of year with some festive accessories. This year, the one thing that I have noticed the most is the "presents" under the tree. Why are they there? In most households the tree probably goes up before all …