buying your own presents

[eleanor2]

today i was in a shop selling everything half price. i saw a pair of silver plated scissors with a design on the handle. i couldn't resist them.so i did what i do every year. i bought them for myself for christmas.i will wrap them up .by christmas i will have forgotten about them .so they will still be a surprise. i tell hubby he only needs get me a couple of things then.it makes it easier for hubby and i get things i want.

[Redstart]

Oh yes. I usually have to order or buy my own surprise so I decide what that will be and usually am asked to get it. I also buy us a joint present that I wrap and have forgotten about by the time Chrismtas arrives. And often if we're out and one of us sees something, we get it and try and forget it until Christmas, anniversay or birthday. That was how I came to buy my last year's Christmas present of a Bernese spinning wheel and my husband bought his this year's birthday present of a Lucerne spinning wheel (the third wheel is an old Dutch one that started us off with spinning wheels).

[eleanor2]

its great buying something so useful.especially as you are going to a workshop.your hubby sounds as industrious as you. i cant remember what i bought myself last year. but i buy myself a few little things every year.have done as long as i can remember. with this menopause.my remembering is a trouble.so my own surprises will probably even more of a surprise this year.

[eleanor2]

gotta go folks. promised hubby no computer tonight. log fire and reading.wont be on tomorrow. see you all monday morning.

[sheddie]

That log fire sounds lovely,hope you enjoy your evening.

[eleanor2]

thanks sheddy love my log fire.its so relaxing. i can happily just sit by a log fire listening to music.candles lit.good book.or not even reading,just watching the flames.

[CountryLady]

Log fires are great! I'm hoping that the builders will get my chimney rebuilt before Christmas so that we can light ours again.

[eleanor2]

hi country lady nice to see you here. every house i have ever lived in has had a open fire.i just couldn't imagine not having a log fire in winter. some cold dull days. i light my fire just to cheer the room up.i sit there writing all my christmas letters.my sister in devon would miss my first line of my letter to her if it didn't start i am sitting by my log fire.she always writes back glad you still sitting by your log fire.a standing joke for many years.

[CountryLady]

Hi Eleanor, lovely to "see" you too!
Open fires give such a wonderful focal point to a room don't they?

[eleanor2]

i tell you what we'v had a laugh getting logs over the years. when my hubby was a mechanic for a building firm. site managers would ring hi up and say we'v felled a load of trees if you want them. the best was at a caravan site in the country.snow on the ground.hubby with a chain-saw. me lifting and holding branches as he cut. then bagging them and loading in van.phew it was hard work but we loved it. hey that would make a good pressy for hubby . delivery of a load of logs all bagged up ready.cus builders still drop him chunks off and he has go up in laws chopping over winter...... little duck

[CountryLady]

We have a log pile outside the house and we had a lot stolen one year. I bet someone bagged them up and sold them elsewhere.
We have the remains of a load of fencing to burn this year as we've had it all replaced so it's all ready for sawing up!

[Oola]

This year I'm burning the remnants of my crab apple that half fell down, as well as some pyracantha prunings. For the half-rotted bits, I have a log pile that I started 2 years ago for wildlife...seems to be thriving at the mo!

It takes me ages to sort out the firewood from the garden, as I have to be sure that I've picked off every last little bug!

[CountryLady]

I know just what you mean Oola. This year we have the four (at least) hedgehogs aswell so I don't want to disturb them either!