Frantic Festivity

Hello dear readers, 

How lovely to be reunited with you!! Sorry I've been so absent recently - as expected, the busy Christmas period has hit full-force and I've been engulfed in the middle of a huge mountain of homework, tests, present purchasing, Christmas decorating, present wrapping, meeting up with as many people as possible, and all the usual Christmas frantic factors. Even though they're tiring, I suppose they're what makes this time of year so exciting. 

Another little life update is that from 21st-23rd December I was in Berlin with my dearest one, Helen - hopefully I'll have a full post up about it soon - where we went Christmas shopping and famous-sights-visiting. 'Twas absolutely wunderbar (German A Level teachers would be proud). 

We're hosting the festivities for 10 people and 2 dogs this year, which should be very busy!! I'd love to hear about your Christmas traditions in the comments.

So, all that's left to say is I hope you all have a very, VERY happy, safe, love-filled, and all-round merry Christmas and that Santa brings you everything you wish for. 

Thanks for reading, 

The very (festive and) happy blogger 

Ps: currently wearing a very garish, bright red, sequin-filled Christmas jumper and I have no shame whatsoever. I feel this is the time of year when fashion rules no longer apply; anyone else agree?? (Or it may just be me being my slightly oblivious-to-conventionality-self - but who wants to follow the crowd anyway?) Therefore, have no shame in whipping out those reindeer/Santa/Christmas pudding (what I've opted for)/whatever other festive things/sequiny jumpers and/or onesies, and feel as festive and gleeful as possible - after all, Christmas only comes round once a year. 

Merry (late - sorry) Christmas!!!

So, I'll start this belated post by saying I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and that Santa got you all the presents you wanted. 

I also had a good Christmas, although it didn't go quite to plan. 

If you don't live in Britain or Southern England you may not have heard what happened over the past few days. Well, without having to go into too much boring detail, there was a big storm. Aka, an event that messes everything up...

If you're not from the UK, you may also not understand the British's weird obsession with pantomimes (I have nothing against them though - I love them). As a family, we always go to our local one every year. But due to complications with the storm, we didn't. 

Then came the powercut, which left thousands of homes without electricity or heating over Christmas. This meant that we had to shower at my auntie's house and then go home for Christmas Eve, which was quite exciting;) . 

I have to say though, it didn't go so badly. We got our electricity back that night, but there were many who didn't, so I'm so sorry to any of you reading this if you were one of those unfortunate families; I hope you had a wonderful time despite it.

So there's my little life update for you! I'll leave you with some arty-farty festive photos (Bit of alliteration for you there, woop woop).

Much love, the (very) happy blogger xxxxx

Ps: a 'what I got for Christmas' post is on the way - plus a possible product review (because I've never done one before and it might be fun haha)!