The count­down to Christ­mas is now fully under­way. I have fin­ished my Christ­mas shop­ping, writ­ten most of my Christ­mas cards and as I am at home for the hol­i­day sea­son this year, I have no need to stock up on food or decorations.

All that leaves for me to do now is plough through my Exam (13 full working-days left til its due and count­ing), open the doors on my Me To You ^[1] chocol­ate Advent cal­en­dar each morn­ing and then, get more and more excited!! (Too old for advent cal­en­dars? Just you watch!)

The hand-made Christ­mas cards that I com­pleted on Fri­day after­noon have been pos­ted. The recip­i­ents may think their cards were con­struc­ted by the hands of a small child. Let me put this to bed now when I say this was not the case. They actu­ally happened to be the product of the hands of a very big child.

Unfor­tu­nately, dur­ing the con­struc­tion of said cards, there was some­what of a glit­ter explo­sion. The Mother Ship was not impressed, cue the entire kit­chen and Claire being sub­ject to the wrath of the vacuum cleaner and copi­ous amounts of damp kit­chen towel (to com­bat the excess­ive usage of Pritt Stick).

Oh dear.

That aside, I can safely it was the most fun I’ve had in ages. All that cut­ting, stick­ing and mak­ing a sparkly mess? Bril­liant! If you ever get a chance to do some­thing again as an adult that you did when you were 6, I thor­oughly recom­mend going for it!!