For the first time in my grown-up life, Christmas does not feel like an enemy I have had to have fisticuffs with throughout December but is instead a much-anticipated visitor who has arrived in the night bearing gifts of promise and clementines to be eaten in front of wonderful television like The Making of A Lady…
There was something of the blissful this morning, creeping down the stairs before Finley woke up, to switch on the
I read out loud to myself: a whispered narrative of Victorian Christmas at six o’clock in the morning. For there is a special place in my heart for the Christmas books of yesteryear. For all of those books found on the Gutenberg Christmas
Now there is just a week until my favorite day of the year: Christmas Eve, and I have nothing else to do but to read A Christmas Accident and to bake chocolate and marzipan
It feels odd. Worrying. As if there is something ENORMOUS I have forgotten. One shouldn’t be someone else at Christmas. It is rather disconcerting.
Nothing left to do but dream.
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I am feeling exactly the same. Which is just as well as I seem to have come down with a bug this week! Like most people we are having a parred down Christmas due to financial constraints. But if spending less brings more contentment and makes Christmas a relaxing time rather than a stressful one then this is a very good lesson learnt for future Christmases!
I love, love , love your blog…thank you for all you do…I tried to download several of the Gutenberg Christmas books to my Kindle fire…they will not open up. Any suggestions? Thank you for allowing me to live an English life vicariously through you….Merry Christmas…
Hi Sheri, thank you for your lovely comment.If you go to openlibrary.org, search for the book you have chosen at Gutenberg and link your Kindle to your Open Library account, Amazon will deliver the document straight to your Kindle and it should open easily like that.
Hope this works!
Have a wonderful Christmas.
Alison.x
P.S: the majority of Gutenberg books are available in the Kindle store for free too, so seach there first.
I am feeling exactly the same. Which is just as well as I seem to have come down with a bug this week! Like most people we are having a parred down Christmas due to financial constraints. But if spending less brings more contentment and makes Christmas a relaxing time rather than a stressful one then this is a very good lesson learnt for future Christmases!
I love, love , love your blog…thank you for all you do…I tried to download several of the Gutenberg Christmas books to my Kindle fire…they will not open up. Any suggestions? Thank you for allowing me to live an English life vicariously through you….Merry Christmas…
Thanks for the Gutenberg Christmas Bookself suggestions.I put a couple on my Kindle. I feel kinda rough today so I might crawl under a blanket and take a nap with “A Christmas Accident.”Thanks love…Sally