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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 December 2024

My New 2025 Hobby

Christmas Mushroom 2024

Cheers to Cal for his latest hand-crafted Crimbo mushroon gift:

And here it is among my growing collection 🙂:

Friday, 27 December 2024

A Christmas Carol Pop Funko review

This is a fantastic set of figures. Scrooge is my favourite of the set by a country mile.


The ghost of Christmas present is perfect too, as is Jacob Marley, which has a fantastic texture to its glow in the dark surface. Tiny Tim was captured well with some amazing detail on the pop. 



The ghost of Chrismas yet to come had an amazing soft feel to its trailing rags. A nice feature, which would have made the figure more striking, but is sadly missing, would have been to have have included the faces if Ignorance and Want peeking through the rags.



The only real disappointing figure for me in the set was the ghost of Christmas past, which was too yellow, the candles were a too blocky and, without its box labling might not have been recognised as A Chrismas Carol Figure. This latter fault is perhaps also present in the Ghost of Christas yet to come. All in all though, it is a great set. Each figure comes with a great snowy London street stand that can interlock to present the collection nicely. And making three of the ghosts glow in the dark is also a cool feature. 


As for my photography, I think I will do better on a second attempt.

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Morning Delivering

Down my Mammy's this morning with pressies and M&S shopping:

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Sunday, 15 December 2024

Christmas Reading and the Christmas Cat

Thought I'd keep my recent Christmas reading ritual of reading one of these illustrated Ghost Stories - this year's tale being The Captain of the Polestar by Arthur Conan Doyle. (I am loving my new Christmas mug too.)



And whilst she hasn't got any competition this year, fudjcat still seems determined to look good for her role as this year's Christmas Cat.

Thursday, 12 December 2024

Christmas at the Office

Christmas lunch and Yulefest day at the office.



 Mood dipping as I am desperate for a break from work.

Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Gin Bottle Lights


After emptying the contents of the above bottle or raspberry gin :o/, I stuffed it with some old Christmas Tree lights. I have to admit, I rather like the result :o)

Monday, 1 January 2024

A damp start

Tuesday, December 02, 2024

Looking out at a drizzly new year...



Tuesday, 26 December 2023

A Boxing Day Project

My Boxing Day green-fingered project. Re-uniting a mother with her offspring. These were grown from a single leaf cutting I took from a plant I took when my daughter was a newborn.








Monday, 25 December 2023

Christmas Chillin'

Monday, December 25, 2023

Sunday, 24 December 2023

Christmas Eve, 2023

Sunday, December 24, 2023 

Just delivered my Christmas cheer to my Mum's.

Crimble Tidying

Finished work for Christmas yet still sooooo much to do... Tidying to KLF and The Shamen. Merry Crimble. 
   

    

Monday, 18 December 2023

Merry Christmas One and All

Monday, December 19, 2023

Reading Caracal. Reaching the part where Bertie gets left out in the dark and rain without his supper...

Reading my last Guy N Smith book for a while as my year-long reading project comes to a close. Which means, it's time to start putting together some thoughts for my write-up of reading, collecting and enjoying Guy's work. This will be featured in a full-colour fanzine book called The Imaginarium. 
The book, dedicated wholly to Guy, is planned to be the first in a series of zines/books celebrating scary storytelling. I've already got an idea for issue 2 percolating in my head (something along the lines of eerie children's books) so I think it's time to crack on with Issue One. Thanks Guy, you've truly entertained me throughout 2023.

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Fudge at Christmas

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Sunday, 10 December 2023

'Tis beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Sunday, December 10, 2023

 



Tuesday, 23 August 2022

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Sunday, December 11, 2022



Sunday morning ~ words are formin'. -Thankfully, as I've given myself one hell of a task of completing both a second and third draft of a 100,000 novel! Still, I'm enjoying it at the moment as I really can't remember from one page to the next what i going to happen next. A quarter of a century has not been kind to my memory.



Sunday, 2 January 2022

Saturday, 18 December 2021