Tree 543-892

This year's tree has arrived. He's called Tree 543-892 and he's drying out in the conservatory until tomorrow, when he'll be getting decorated. He has a slight lean to the side and he's a bit bent at the top but I think he'll do a good job.

I've also ordered this year's turkey and will be fetching him on Christmas Eve.

This afternoon, I'm going to do some actual wrapping. I am not looking forward to that.

Day 5 of 30

Today I have to share with you my favourite quote.

My favourite quote is a play on the "serenity" one, and it goes like this:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I cannot accept
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

I don't really have any bodies to hide today, as no-one has pissed me off. The only thing which did piss me off was the Sellotape when I was wrapping some Christmas presents, because it wouldn't come off the roll straight and it kept getting caught on itself and rendering itself useless. I haven't yet wrapped everything. I have a couple more things I'll probably get for people and I also have something for someone which needs to be sent off but which couldn't be wrapped today because I ran out of gift tags. So I'll do that tomorrow and will then do the other stuff as and when I get it.

In other news, I have booked a table at the Positano for Christmas Eve. Huzzah! I'm trying decide now where to go when we're in London because a) Topo Gigio isn't Topo Gigio any more, and b) we're having Italian on Christmas Eve and I think I'm also having it in Manchester next weekend, so I don't want to get all pasta'd out. If anyone has any suggestions for good places to eat in central London, feel free to share them!

This evening, I am cooking chicken stuffed with cheese and parsley and wrapped in parma ham, and am going to enjoy that (hopefully), followed by some rhubarb crumble and clotted cream. I also have San Miguel and then some rosé for later on. Bliss.

Tomorrow, I will be putting up all of the decorations and decorating Tree 543-892, doing the food shopping and then doing some writing. I was set a target last night of 5,000 words over the weekend and I've done around 2,200 so far today, so I should hopefully hit my target.