Last year you spent the whole of November virtuously not thinking about Christmas. Sidling past the tinsel, the seasonal food aisles, the oversized Santas, the holly themed car and leg waxing sets and the jolly reindeer socks in shops, averting your eyes when the really jingly adverts came on TV, stuffing your fingers in your ears to protect yourself [...]
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
On decking the halls.
Posted in Christmas, Family, Food, Holidays, tagged Christmas, Greggs the Bakers, NaBloPoMo 2009 on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy First Birthday, The Star!
Posted in Babies, Childbirth, Holidays, Motherhood on June 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Merry New Year (Orthodox) Christmas.
Posted in Babies, Britain, Churches, Family, Health, Holidays, Motherhood, Movies, Russia, tagged Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas, Peculiarities of the National Hunt, The Irony of Fate or With a Light Steam on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the 7th January.
If anyone wonders why you don’t, as a rule, get that Christmas tree up until the last possible moment before (British) Christmas, then the fact that in the Solnushka household you are still deep in the holiday season should be reason enough. The midwinter blowout won’t be over until Old New Year [...]
On myths and mucus.
Posted in Babies, Health, Holidays, Motherhood, tagged Christmas on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“You will soon,” say numerous leaflets and other great works of literature about babies, “become familiar with the different cries your baby makes and what they mean.”
“Bollocks you will,” is what you say.
Best Friend even had a baby manual which aimed to give you a shortcut across the learning curve which aimed to detail the different [...]
On sticky backed plastic.
Posted in Babies, Family, Holidays, Motherhood, tagged Birthday, Christmas, NaBloPoMo 2008, Presents, Scotch tape, Sellotape on November 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So it turns out that what made the Star laugh yesterday was Sellotape.
Your menfolk were innocently wrapping a birthday present for your Mother, and had just ripped their first bit of Sellotape when the Star burst into loud laughter which, apparently, went on and on.
Slightly stunned, they waited until he stopped and tried the Sellotape again.
The [...]
On Christmas Puddings.
Posted in Babies, Cooking, Holidays, Motherhood, tagged Christmas, Christmas Pudding on November 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today you assembled two Christmas puddings and then tended them while they boiled for six hours.
This actually feels like an achievement when it is combined with a day’s worth of baby wrangling.
On Guy Fawkes Night
Posted in Britain, Culture Shock, Holidays, Russia, Weather, tagged 5th November, Autumn, Birthday, Bonfire Night, Fall, Fireworks Night, Guy Fawkes Night, NaBloPoMo 2008, Red October Day on November 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The fact that the 5th November went completely unmarked in Russia was always extremely disconcerting to you.
It’s always been a holiday you have celebratedwith vigour, and a trip to the local fireworks display, followed by baked potatoes and your Dad setting up a tray of sand at the far extreme of the garden so that [...]
On Halloween.
Posted in Babies, Christmas, Clothes, Family, Flags, Holidays, Motherhood, Russia, tagged Halloween, Mothercare, NaBloPoMo 2008 on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You managed to restrain yourself from kitting the Star out as either a pumpkin or a little red devil this Halloween. He is, after all, only four months old and it would have been pure self indulgence.
But only because you have promised yourself that you will buy not only a little reindeer suit, but also a [...]
On discoveries.
Posted in Britain, Culture, Drink, Family, Food, Holidays, Patriotism, Poetry, tagged Burns' Night, Robert Burns, William Topaz McGonagall on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You are not in the least Scottish.
This has always been a source of faint irritation because you are able to conjure up in almost equal amounts a Welsh background, an Irish one, a Northern English past, a Southern English birthplace and a strong connection to the Channel Islands out of France. So to miss out on being [...]
On Sergiyev Posad.
Posted in Architecture, Holidays, Religion, Russia, Sergiyev Posad, Sightseeing, Travel on April 8, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Sergiyev Posad is one of the Golden Ring towns. That is, it’s one of twelve towns floating around Moscow which are historically significant and are recommended as worth a visit if to anyone who is going to be in the region for any length of time.
You’ve actually been to two. The other one was Suzdal.
But you tended to [...]
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