In the UK we would always say that christmas was on its way when we saw the coca cola advert on the television.
I keep seeing lots of pictures on Facebook of my friends newly erected Christmas tree but unfortunately our decorations are at our new home but the actual tree is still at our old home in the rural area so we aren’t able to put the tree up yet. I am tempted though to just buy a new tree as I want to make our house festive. I’ve threatened to drown our house in Christmas decorations, the Aussies not so sure about my plans đŸ™‚
I have noticed also that the decorations have been up in the streets and shops for a while now ready for the lights being turned on this Friday. It seems like they go up earlier and earlier and I am also surprised to see them out and about in October.
To get in the Christmas spirit today, and also because I have been meaning to do it for 2 weeks I finally started the preparations for baking our Christmas cake or at least to give it a go as I am nervous about my cake baking abilities these days. My cakes seem to be too dry so I need to work on that and hope for the perfect Christmas cake.
We bought the main ingredients in the supermarket but we still needed to buy some brandy to soak the fruit in. This ended up causing the man in the shop amusement when I popped in to buy some brandy today after work and ended up with this little collection.
I tried to find Advocat last year to make snowballs but couldn’t find it anywhere, this year I found it without even looking and luckily had some lemonade and lime in the fridge to mix myself up a snowball whilst I cooked dinner (a very yummy curry I will blog one day soon) and then beginning work on the Christmas cake.
I also love to listen to my Christmas play list this time of the year so stuck that on and let Christmas in our household begin!
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