Jacqui Clarke in Chc, Ao/NZ

Cool! Suits you.

Ain't it grand? Ive got all the doors and windows open, just had a homemade burger, and am drinking cider on the couch.

I just had a homemade burger for dinner and DAMN it was a good time.

A beer pub? Man, Yanks are soooooo uncool.

Amazed at the number of people who are unaware of that.

Chonk.

Small garden with chairs, cushions, plants and a hedge of sorts with fairy lights and lit up stars on sticks. So festive!

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I have upped my seasonal festoonery with solar lights in my tiny townhouse garden!
Lights, that flash on request, and stars on sticks! Vulgar consumerism, but hey ho.
How very festive!
And quite clearly it helped Santa to find my place for delivery! 🎄😍🎉

Gift from the cat?

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POD on my gift this morning, thank you Santa! Exciting! Woop! 🎄😍

What is that godforsaken idiot even talking about?

Emma your work is absolutely stunning, and so calming. Excellent therapy for you and all of us!
Thank you for generously sharing your wonderful gift, and all the very best for clearing the fog. Xoxox

Cutest thing you'll see this week.

Conscious downplaying of the risk and incompetence by the journalist, too.

Do you really think you should be sharing it??

🤣

'Tis the season, after all!

CUTE pic, Jaide!

Well how lovely that you're part of this awesome thing then, Jo.
You can source your Christmas joy from all the gift-receiving that happens on the 15th.

Lavender in a small off-white vase on a wooden coffee table.

Sweet peas in purple, dark pink & white, with sugar snaps on an outdoor climbing frame.

Purple & white lobelia

Purple, pink, burgundy & white lobelia in a wooden half barrel outside.

I seem to have inadvertently chosen a purple theme in my tiny garden this year.
Odd.

My lovely Mum turned 80 on Sunday and we had a great family dinner out where my father managed not to be a grumpy a-hole. I count that as a win!

100%

##SecretSantaAoNZ here's the extent of my festive festoonery at home: last year's KMart double star extravaganza, with new batteries.
It's pretty much all I have room for!
I like it that it's made of a wood-ish product and is simple and reusable.

So sorry to hear that. Those arseholes are barely human.

Is it just me, or does Chambers look like exactly the same kind of corrupt copper he's claiming to be against?

#SecretSantaAo/NZ gift sent! Woop! I hope they like it. 😬🎄

Yeah I'm with you. I want a pohutokawa wreath! Also get yourself a living tree in a pot & just pull it inside once a year.
What gets me is the massive expense of all that crap, too. Makes things so unnecessarily stressful.

Maybe this is the year for a BBQ with festive salads, Lamia. Break Out, as Shakespeare's Sister once sang.

Definitely! I'd buy the first two for sure!

If only she was....