In Between Days.

Friday.

We decided it was time to take down as much of Christmas as we could manage. Poor Kev did most of the humping and lumping, emptying the loft so we could see what we had and find exactly what we could get rid of. While I was removing all the Christmas stuff and cleaning the now empty spaces. I rearranged quite a bit and Kev went through the boxes. We put the delicate stuff in the window in the bedroom. The wooden houses had to go to the back of the wardrobe, everything else went in the loft. 

By the time I had put everything back where I wanted them, and Kev had finished in the loft the only things left to put away are the baubles. Which we can get done Monday once Kev has been for his eye scan. 

I will do my tier tray tomorrow. One of my gifts was a crow candlestick. I already have a set of two, so this one has gone into the hall, as the other two are in the  (un)living room, flanking the crow bath and body works candle holder. Along with Dave and Patrica. We have left the faux fireplace out as it is still winter and switching that on and seeing the flames makes it feel cosy, along with the orange berry lights that Trish bought me a few years back that warm the wall at the back of those display cases. It all helps make it comfy and how we like it. Candle warmer on, decent scent coming from it ( no cheap candles are worth it, if you are going to have a candle on make it a good one) TKMAXX do some good ones, but Yankee and Bath and Body Works do the best in my opinion. Worth every penny. 

And that's it for my first Christmas/Festive period at home, I can actually say I enjoyed it, and it was perhaps the most relaxed I've been. The real test of me being retired comes now its turned cold. Not having to worry about falling in icy conditions will be a game changer for me. And it'll put my treadmill to work, keeping me active. The Christmas treats are all gone now, so its back to being sensible. I always resort back to Ian Marbers 10 principles and the 80/20 rule. So long as you eat well 80% of the time you can have your 20% of off plan food. 

To be honest we didn't but that much crap ( years ago there would have been chocolate tubs everywhere, mountains of beige food ( party foods) and loads of booze. Now you're lucky if there's much drink, Fireball perhaps, always good for medicinal perposes in the colder months, and what's left of the Bailey's. We haven't even got a bottle of wine left, actually there might be the Frankenstein label 19 Crimes red in the holder, as we only bought the couple we bought to take to Sue's. Compared to the many years we had an actual drinks cabinet with every spirit imaginable. How time changes everything. We got "hungover " from drinking Zero%  Prosecco on NYE which says a lot about our alcohol tolerance these days!