WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

This is "Nonna's Castle" where I live and I wanted to show you our Christmas decoration when you come in. I improved the picture a bit, since it was black and white.

Of course the whole castle is decorated and some residents also decorated their rooms. 
 

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AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND DECEMBER 13

 

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WEEKEND 

Saturday morning I crawled out of my bed, looked outside and found that the park had disappeared behind a grey veil ! After my coffee, I pulled all my strength together and took out my Christmas decoration.

I had bought it last year, because my old Christmas decoration I had all given away when Rick had passed away and I thought I will never celebrate Christmas again. But then my son and family came and I thought I can't leave my room naked for Christmas. So this year I will use the new decoration again, as they will come and celebrate with me. 

In the afternoon we played an interesting game how 25 countries in the world celebrate Christmas. It was very interesting, because not in all countries it's a father Christmas who brings the gifts. I knew two, it was Baby Jesus (Christkind) in Germany and the witch Befana in Italy.

 

La Befana

 

Das Christkind (Baby Jesus) 

On Sunday I started my Christmas decorations, but I could only do a little bit before I was breathless. So I'll continue tomorrow. 

In the afternoon, the Waterloo Choir came to sing Christmas carols. It was quite a big choir, but luckily our dining room is huge—after all, we are in a castle ! 

The choir sang very beautiful Christmas carols, including the traditional "O Christmas Tree," "Silent Night," and "Hallelujah." The first two were in French, then came English songs and even a Russian/Ukrainian song. It was truly lovely. Unfortunately, I must have done something wrong; at least, my video didn't turn out very well, but you can hear at least a bit the sound

Looks like "modern art"
 

 

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The week started with spring temperatures ! 15°C is very seldom in November. Unfortunately it rained and I couldn't go out for a walk. I slept badly, kept waking up, and had wild dreams that I can't remember. My cat Rosie was happy and wandered all over me until I fed her at 3 a.m. When I woke up again, it was already after 9 a.m., and my breakfast was already on the table. After I inhaled my medication, I tidied up a bit, and then it was time for my pedicure to cut my toenails. She is also of Italian descent and we chatted a lot together.

In the afternoon we had a funny game, it was a box with plenty of little cubes in which were herbs and we had smell and guess what it was. Our 100 year old made not one single error, while I only found one smell, the others were not much better. 

The next day we tried to make a creche, which was a disaster. The girl brought completely the wrong materials, so everything went wrong. They can throw the result in the trash.

Here is the result 

The Christmas tree in our restaurant looked real great. It was Kim who had done it alone. We just supervised !

 

And this is the decoration at the entrance. 

I wanted to take a nice photo with Rosie and Santa Claus for my Christmas card, but that ungrateful cat just kept sleeping. 

Our Park looked rather neglected, the lawn was not mowed and all the leaves covered the grass. From far you could think it looked like a hayfield. But this morning two gardeners came with machines and made a huge racket. It took almost all day, but now it looks beautiful.

 

It's the end of the week and I am relieved ! I did my Christmas shopping today and found everything I wanted. 

On this occasion, I also saw how the Christmas tree in front of the church in Waterloo was being decorated. The baubles were as big as footballs! The main street was already quite decorated.

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