Christmas Preparations Part II

We started off the day by going to the garden centre in the beautiful little village of Burford to buy a tree. It's a bit of an underestimation to call it just a garden centre. It's more like a complex with everything from a gorgeous gift shop, to a mini cinema for kids, as well as an adventure playground and local organic grocers with everything else you might need or want
in between. We then went for a wander around the main street and took the kids to the traditional sweet shop.

Cheese!

Oh, the choices......

'Carry me daddy', 'No, carry me!'

After finding the perfect tree, we went home to decorate it. Whilst Nick went searching for the pot to put the tree in, I baked the cookies, whilst Benjamin and Jasmine licked the bowl...yum!


Unable to find any Christmas songs to our liking (read 'cheesy' Christmas songs, choir carols were aplenty, but we wanted Slade, George Michael, Eartha Kitt and Aretha, NOT Winchester Cathedral Choir or the like!), we found a station playing caribbean calypso carols. The kids were so excited they roped us into doing the conga through the living room. admittedly, after some glasses of mulled wine, we didn't need much persuading ;-)