Sunday 22 December 2013

Christmas Shopping

Two more shopping days until Christmas.  However carefully you choose, there's a hair's breadth between buying your nearest and dearest exactly what they'd like and what you might imagine they'd like. I read an interesting tid bit in the Daily Mail about how to read body language on whether your chosen ones like what you've chosen  - here's a link on Choosing what to buy

We had an unexpected Christmas present the other day. A recent storm had brought a tree down on my brother-in-law's farm. He phoned us to say that he was cutting logs up and would we like any?  We have a solid fuel Rayburn which eats logs like they're going out of fashion. With the soaring electric and central heating oil prices, I have to say that its recently come back into fashion with a vengeance. He chopped them up on his log splitter in the pouring rain and we loaded a Transit van full. We're having to dry them  in the Rayburn oven,  a few at a time before we burn them, but the bestest present out.

  Like everyone else in Britain, the floods and storms are on the way with more heavy rain forecast for tomorrow. It looks as if we could be hunkered in for Christmas Day. To you who call by - have a special, happy Christmas.  Keep warm and dry, love from Molly xx

26 comments:

  1. Happy Christmas to you Molly. Best wishes.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Happy Christmas to you, too Bonnie. Have a lovely day

      Delete
  2. That is a great Christmas gift.....I like gifts that can be used. The flooding is NOT such a great gift. Keep warm by your fire....Merry Christmas to you and yours.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oh yes, me too. Warm as toast in here and it's blowing a gale outside. Keep toasty at your house too and have a lovely day tomorrow

      Delete
  3. Wishing you a comfy warm, and hopefully dry Christmas Molly!

    xo Kat

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Kat. Have a special day tomorrow too xx

      Delete
  4. When a few of our trees came down in late summer, I was sad. Then I thought of my daughter and her wood burning stove and how this would be such a blessing for her. She might not be able to use them till late winter, but hickory and cherry wood will help her definitely next year.

    I wish you all the warmth of the season and all the blessings that it can bring, Molly. Merry a Christmas, dear friend.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. We were wondering what on earth we were going to do for logs and there they appeared - wasn't that good! Arleen, thank you for your Christmas wishes. I wish you and your family all the warmth of the season also x

      Delete
  5. I'm off to do my shopping as soon as they open. Good Turkeys are thin on the ground here (they eat Capons) so I need to be first in the queue. I hope the weather stays kind for you over the next few days; we have our wood fired cooker on the go too, and you're right they use a lot of wood. Cro x.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Enjoy your Christmas dinner, Cro. I did all my food shopping on Friday and then popped them in the freezer. I bought a turkey breast and a joint of sirloin. Just two of us here tomorrow so we're having roast beef and the trimmings. Granddaughter and boyfriend are coming after Christmas so we'll have the turkey then with all the warmth of a log fire. Have a lovely day tomorrow.

      Delete
  6. Replies
    1. John, Happy Christmas to you, Chris and all those special little critters. Have a great day xx

      Delete
  7. That's a useful and welcome gift, Molly. Hope you keep warm and dry during these wet and windy days and have a very peaceful Christmas.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Linda, thank you. Happy Christmas to you too

      Delete
  8. Happy Christmas you two -looks like Santa will need his wellies on this year - keep warm - xx Jane

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Happy Christmas you two as well. Have a good day tomorrow. xx

      Delete
  9. Have a wonderful Christmas Molly. Good to know you have some extra firewood. I am always very grateful when the man who built this house turns up with a gratis trailer load of firewood for me cut nice and short for the pot belly stove.

    ReplyDelete
  10. It looks as if your shopping is over, now.
    Merry Christmas, have a wonderful day.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, thank goodness. Everything safely tucked away and ready for tomorrow. Have a lovely day, tomorrow with your three stars and all the other folks at home

      Delete
  11. I remember the wood stoves from my past, they're being phased out here in Australia, there's the ever present fire danger in such a hot dry country, but there's also talk of air pollution. A shame really, they're such a comfort in the winter, to sit beside a stove and watch the flames.
    Merry Christmas to you and your family.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, I can understand that - the forest fires are some kind of nightmare. I would imagine that your weather is very hot at the moment. Have a lovely Christmas in Adelaide xx

      Delete
  12. Keep safe and warm, Molly. Windy but sunny up here in Yorkshire today. Have a wonderful Christmas.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. And you too, Perpetua. Have a special day with your family x

      Delete
  13. Hi Molly, wood is indeed an appreciated gift. We use a wood stove too. So far we have not had to purchase wood but we also use central heat for part of the house. Have a Lovely Christmas. Thank you for your faithful visits to Olive Out. I always love your comments. xo, olive

    ReplyDelete
  14. Hi Olive - love reading your blogs too. Happy Christmas to you, Joe and your lovely daughter CC out in S Korea

    ReplyDelete