Ilkeston - Christmas At Home
w/e 03 January 2021
All of this week's
pictures were taken with a Kodak DX6490
Our family celebrations planned for Boxing Day had to be cancelled
due to the late revision of the coronavirus restrictions so they
were unable to see how we had decorated the house. They will
obviously be familiar with most of them from previous years but
it doesn't hurt to see them again.
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On one of the wall units we had a musical Santa (in fact there
were two), and a knitted Christmas pudding, snowmen and reindeer.
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On the shelf below there was our snowy model village.
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It's easy to see why we get nostalgic at this time of year when
old cards and decorations come out again to revive memories of
times gone by. The card on the left was made for us when our
son was in primary school.
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The selection of trees on another wall unit are fairly recent
additions to our decorations but the two pop-up scenes date from
the post war years.
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The 3D Nativity card between the pop-up scenes in the previous
photo was given to me by my Dad in the 1940s and always takes
a prominent spot in our decorations.
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Other decorations include a display of plastic holly, tinsel,
fruit and flowers and little wintry figures.
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There's also more festive animals as well as other figures and
candles at various places around the house.
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Garlands are hung from the ceiling, a holly wreath is fastened
to the wall and Christmas cards from family and friends are hung
as they arrive.
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It's always a tradition to have some Christmas flowers in memory
of family members who are no longer with us but this year, we
also missed the rest of our family because of the restrictions.
Hopefully we'll be able to meet up with them all again to celebrate
the end of the pandemic.
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