A NOVEMBER SUNDAY

 

Remember remember now it's November !   

Yes November! The eleventh month of the year ! We are now heading towards, I will say it! Christmas !!

That's right,  just over the horizon is December and Christmas and all It's glitz and glamour !! Not really a lot to do with poor old Jesus these days. 

I must be feeling my age as I begin to think more and more how nice this time of year used to be , back in the day ! (  I can hear that groaning of you youngsters! )  But honesty it was , back when there were shops selling lovely Christmas gifts and in London's Oxford street all the department stores shop windows were full of wonderful displays and not of toasters and curly tongs! But Alice in wonderland  or A Christmas Carol, parents would take their children to see all the windows in the evening with all the sparkling Christmas lights and the crowds at the windows would be three deep and you'd have to squeeze forward so you could see everything. There were TOY'S ! Yes proper toys, trains weaving their way around other toys and children could be awed by what they saw. 

Now it's all about 'selling' with windows full of luxury goods they want to sell. I can understand that they need to make sales at Christmas an important time for revenue but surely they could devote half of their windows to the magic of children. That would bring people out to show their children and that in turn could lead to more sales, if they planned it right. 

Well I'd best get down off my 'old' soap box before I start getting complaints about my age ! ;) lol

So been quite a grey week weather wise, but we have been slowly putting the garden to bed for the winter, tidying things away, sweeping up the thousands of leaves that keep appearing on the paths!

The cat , Mabel, decided to start behaving like a zombie! Walking really slowly and pausing when  making a step for about three or four minutes before remembering what she was doing! and then continuing! She'd also not eaten, for a day, when normally she spends her days telling anyone she sees her throat's been cut !,  so we made an appointment at the vets. . . . well she must have been listening because about an hour later she was meowing for food  and eating ! We still took her, only to be told she was fine ! Maybe getting a bit senile ! Honestly she looked like she was on her last legs ! Now she's walking around behaving like nothing happened and it was some other cat we must have seen behaving like that!

Todays head liner is the lovely Arabella, wearing her Frances Trickett, winter outfit.

On the doll front, four dolls have left, three newbies and a non Sasha plus some clothing has also gone, so my Christmas doll fund is looking very good at the moment. Plus there is more room in the cupboards for the dolls.

The doll studio is back to having been used as a dumping ground, so I need to get in there to re find the floor yet again! I honestly cannot believe where it all comes from, as it's not like I'm not getting rid of things both doll related and other!! Plus I did move some big items down to my storage area in the old workshop. So really there should be a decent amount of space in there! This again now needs to be worked on.

Well it is November so time for those wonderful doll photos on the fifth, which is also Bonfire Night here in the UK, a celebration of when Guy Fawkes and his mates tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and came to a very nasty end!  We used to, back in the day ( stop groaning! ) make a man out of old clothes stuffed with newspaper etc and carry him or push him about in an old pram and ask passersby for a Penny for the Guy, him supposedly being Guy Fawkes, who would then on the fifth of November be thrown onto a local bonfire.

I lived in London as a child and near to Vauxhall Bridge, where there were lots of bus stops on the main road beside the river Thames. One year we dressed my older sister Jackie as the guy with a mask and cloak and asked all the commuters getting off their evening buses, from work, for a Penny for the Guy, my sister would bow and thank those who gave us money. We would have a few fireworks and also watch out for others.

So please send in some doll photos for the fifth, we promise not to burn them ;) 

Have a happy healthy week ahead

Dee