Bookcases

I’m on the train to Manchester for a pre-Christmas visit to Davie and Chanel. It’s a really lovely day; sunny and cold with blue skies. The sun is very low and is slanting across the fields. James and I have been doing a lot of re-organising in the house. Now that his study has had its new furniture installed (although still not completely finished) James has been left with the old bookcases which are made of pine and still in very good condition. So we decided to move them into the room upstairs with the bed-settee, to replace several items of old and mismatched furniture. The good news is that they look lovely and smart and the room feels bigger and lighter. The downside is that this caused a huge amount of upheaval as books, folders, stationery and much more were emptied from the old furniture and then sorted and put into their new storage places. James worked very hard moving the furniture upstairs and it has taken us most of this week to get it done. 

I have also written and posted all of the Christmas cards, and James is hand-delivering the Cambuslang ones today. We chose our Christmas tree from local business “Elfie Trees” and had it delivered, and we have ordered our Christmas turkey from the butcher’s. And yesterday we decorated the tree. Flora found a pile of tinsel in which she made herself a little nest, she was a bit annoyed when we displaced her so that we could use it. 

Among other pleasant social happenings I went to my EK book club’s Christmas meal yesterday evening. And very pleasant it was too, but it turned out that the restaurant was geared up for a party night rather than the quiet dinner we had envisaged. So the music and the other customers were very loud, and got even louder as the disco started at the end of the meal. We couldn’t hear ourselves speak let alone each other. It was still very nice to see everyone and I had a good chat with Elaine in the car on the way home.