Well, personally, I was always a big fan of the Princess Smartypants approach 😉😁

Wonderful 😊!
Had to share this with you... we have a couple of yellow lupins for the first time in decades. Caged against squirrels, but still so exciting...😆!!

Love the poppies 😊!
Here are the lupins... I'm so excited, we've never managed to get them to survive here in decades. Would you believe, after all of the nice garden centre plants that have instantly demised over the years, these were a bag of roots off a stand in Tesco 😆?

So pretty 😄! I must tell you - we have lupins 😄!! True, they are in ratty plastic pots with plastic bottles around the bases and netting in the bottom to deter pests and squirrels, but they're real live lupins 😊! Ridiculously excited - maybe because they are 2nd year... might be tougher to chew🤔?

Love a cuddly toy myself ❤️. Years ago rushed back to a shop and asking the man if he had any more 'Ireland rugby shirts for small teddies'. He didn't know what I meant until I spotted one. 'Oh',he said with a sneer 'I didn't know you meant a wine bottle cover'.
No I didn't. I meant a kitten shirt 😁

Might not be online much over the holidays, so have a Very Happy Christmas🎄!
Nollaig Shona Daoibh🎅!
Wishing you the Christmas you like best – fun & frantic or lazy & relaxed.
Like all posh homes, we have pheasant this year...
Season’s Greetings from Case, who will be dining at ours 😄!

This was a few years ago now but, since we have snow this morning...