When I started this blog back in June some stores were already putting up Christmas displays. Unsurprisingly Christmas has crept up almost unnoticed.
Felix and Eliza both helped putting the tree up last weekend and with decorating. Apart from lights all decorations must be given to us or made by us - we're not allowed to buy any ourselves. The only exception is a couple of small tin christmas trees that Sharon and I bought for each other in St Paul's Cathedral in 2000.
Felix, Eliza and I rode our bikes to Hardly Normal and walked over the footbridge to Carousel for a little shopping for Sharon for Chistmas. Santa was charging children a fortune to have their photos taken. When we spotted Santa again as we returned through HN, Felix noted that Santa must have had some help getting across from Carousel so quickly!
Later that night we parked next to the fire station on Hay Street in Perth and walked down to the Esplanade for the WASO Symphony in the City. Felix loved O Fortuna!, Danse Macabre and, of course, the 1812 was a hit with real cannons! Eliza carried the picnic blanket all the way there and back again at 9.45pm and we never used it!
We went to Carols at Bannister Creek Primary School this Friday night. The evening was probably most notable for Sharon and I jumping in to help with the sausage sizzle when they had a queue of 50 odd people. Also notable for the failure of Santa to make an appearance. There was a skit that poked fun at us for thinking that the bible would make mention of Christmas, Noels, drummer boys, falalalalahs... and then delivered the final coup de grace telling the assembled multitudes that Santa wasn't in the bible either. I suppose the message was that Santa doesn't exist because he isn't in the bible. *sigh*