I had a little mince-pie and mulled-wine party on Saturday. Obviously for an occasion like this you need to think about decorating your flat. Last year I had an enormous tree, from which i am still finding needles (or do I need a better hoover?). It was living in a pot and lasted until april, although it had been dead since march and living in the stairwell since february. My neighbour had to resort to writing me a letter asking me to dispose of it. Anyway, this year I've downsized my tree. Whereas most people buy fake trees that look real - i've managed to find the only live tree that looks fake. So my flat needed additional decorations and i thought i had the best idea ever when i found this stuffed reindeer which i'd brought to give to a friend's new baby. £3 from Asda - bargain! (Oh, Rachel, ignore that please, Florence's reindeer was much more expensive. This is, um, a different reindeer.) I'd brought a few spares just in case of other imminent baby arrivals, but I thought I'd go back out to my local Asda and buy a sack of them and scatter them all over my home; in bunches and on doors and around the fireplace. So i returned, but the reindeers weren't where they had been. I spent friday ringing round various Asda stores with no joy, and i eventually managed to speak to Asda's 'head of reindeer' who informed me that they had no more stock. Devastated i wondered the streets for a bit and had to settle on these cool blue lights from Habitat. Which were reduced because they were blue (?!). They are so funky, they almost make up for the reindeer disapointment (but not quite).
The key to a good mince-pie and mulled-wine party is to invite a small child. Two friends dutifully brought their kid who killed the atmosphere stone-dead by standing in the middle of the lounge just staring at everyone. Eventually she chilled out a bit and was happy dusting mince-pies with icing sugar. It's amazing how many grown adults can be fooled into thinking mince-pies are homemade if you just sprinkle a little icing sugar and persuade a toddler to serve them.
I had a little mince-pie and mulled-wine party on Saturday. Obviously for an occasion like this you need to think about decorating your flat. Last year I had an enormous tree, from which i am still finding needles (or do I need a better hoover?). It was living in a pot and lasted until april, although it had been dead since march and living in the stairwell since february. My neighbour had to resort to writing me a letter asking me to dispose of it. Anyway, this year I've downsized my tree. Whereas most people buy fake trees that look real - i've managed to find the only live tree that looks fake. So my flat needed additional decorations and i thought i had the best idea ever when i found this stuffed reindeer which i'd brought to give to a friend's new baby. £3 from Asda - bargain! (Oh, Rachel, ignore that please, Florence's reindeer was much more expensive. This is, um, a different reindeer.) I'd brought a few spares just in case of other imminent baby arrivals, but I thought I'd go back out to my local Asda and buy a sack of them and scatter them all over my home; in bunches and on doors and around the fireplace. So i returned, but the reindeers weren't where they had been. I spent friday ringing round various Asda stores with no joy, and i eventually managed to speak to Asda's 'head of reindeer' who informed me that they had no more stock. Devastated i wondered the streets for a bit and had to settle on these cool blue lights from Habitat. Which were reduced because they were blue (?!). They are so funky, they almost make up for the reindeer disapointment (but not quite).
The key to a good mince-pie and mulled-wine party is to invite a small child. Two friends dutifully brought their kid who killed the atmosphere stone-dead by standing in the middle of the lounge just staring at everyone. Eventually she chilled out a bit and was happy dusting mince-pies with icing sugar. It's amazing how many grown adults can be fooled into thinking mince-pies are homemade if you just sprinkle a little icing sugar and persuade a toddler to serve them.
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