This Christmas, Virgin Pure is offering fans and followers the chance to win a fantastic water bar by asking them to spread their joy by sharing the things that make them feel good at Christmas! (Not sure what a WaterBar is? Find out more here.)

This might be taking time off work and relaxing at home, eating great food and watching TV, buying gifts for loved ones, catching up with old friends and family that you’ve not seen all year, decorating the Christmas tree, getting creative in the kitchen…

Whatever it is, Virgin Pure want hear about it. View Post

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My neighbour asked me yesterday to come and look at her Christmas tree. She had just put it up, and was especially proud of her 50-year-old lights, bought the first Christmas after she married. The decorations too she explained were probably as old, and every year it was exciting to unwrap them and remember them from Christmases gone by.

I hope this is how I still feel about Christmas when my lights are fifty years old. I love Christmas, and getting a Christmas tree – real of course for the wonderful smell – is a highlight. There is something about that moment when you open the box of decorations, dragged down from the attic or out of the garage – a whoosh of cold, tinselly air that immediately makes you feel like Christmas.

My decorations are mainly peacock colours, with the addition this year of a small family of squirrels.

What’s your favourite Christmas tree decoration?

"Christmas decoration"

 

"glass bauble"

 

"Squirrel"

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Don’t worry, I’m not about to ask for cash.

This Tuesday, 29 November, is officially Pay a Blogger Day. I say officially… someone has decided it would be a nice idea and so they’ve done it. I don’t think there is anything much more formal than that involved.

I don’t know how I feel about it.

Obviously I’m not averse to making the odd pound or two, but I think I would rather it be slightly more indirectly than simply waving an upturned cap and looking expectantly at you, my reader. View Post

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