Nineteen days to go !

Brilliant!
Thank goodness for online shopping (I hate shopping anyway) and, I’m afraid to say, Amazon Prime. We have a particularly manic time coming up, and I have a window of a very few days to get ahead. So given that carpets are overdue for a clean, I ordered carpet shampoo yesterday, for delivery today. Ditto wash-off silver polish - a long overdue session needed there, too.

In mitigation, though, from non Amazon small businesses, I recently ordered personalised presents for little Gdd2, whose birthday is in early January, and 🎄gingerbread biscuit decorating kits for Gdcs and their cousins, who will all be at a big pre 🎄do soon. Should keep them all busy for an hour or two!

That sums up the past couple of weeks of my life 🎄🤶🏻👍🏻

Love the poem - very apt! I hate Christmas shopping now that our city has lost both John Lewis and Debenhams. I flatly refuse to go to Meadowhall so am left with t’internet! Molton Brown (from their own website) came via Amazon, no problem; Clarins from John Lewis via Evry who delivered it a day early and left it outside in the pouring rain; Hugo Boss from Boots click and collect. I got there at ten minutes past their nine o’clock opening and the assistant was already surly, rolling her eyes and sighing at having to fetch yet another click and collect from the stock room! I don’t need this. Next Christmas they’ll all get a selection box!

I do like to shop local but a lot of shops gone Run out of pegs in lock down so got some from Amazon cheaper and come next day so will be buying some presents on line, the poem very appropriate

This is lovely, and so true!
I try really hard to support actual real shops but the lure of the keyboard is just too strong too often.

That said it does enable me to send presents that will be appreciated, eg plants, to people at the far end of the country without all the driving, so that has to be a huge bonus!