The bets are on for a White Christmas

The bets are on for a white christmas here in the UK. One man has bet £1 million that it does snow on Christmas Day and if he wins he gets £14 million. hmmmm I don't think so ... we may be faking it like the pic above (from Vakre magazine).

WELL IT DID SNOW HERE

..... but its not Christmas yet and so can't count.

I came back from dancing last night in a flurry of snow - and by the morning there was a thick blanket of beautiful white snow. So as the British always say it won't last though .

Anyway thought i would share this gorgeous magazine with you - yes its is a Scandinavian magazine and i cannot understand a thing in it LOL - but the pictures of interior homes and ideas in this magazine are always beautiful and inspiring - they are predominantly white and grey interiors with a splash of colour -

the christmas stockings trimmed in fur are very festive and popular this season

and love the image and the script on this cushion

I love the fur trimmed cones - i must do one like this

slip covered tub chairs make this scene look so cosy

silvered balls all grouped together

I love all these festive images

Vakre is one my favorite magazines i wish they would translate it so i could actually read it too (blush :-0)
Oh well off i must go and creative some of my own

Ginny x

Little Star

Not so long ago little un made some biscuits - she LOVED making them and had her helper running around all over the place for her - a proper little bossy chef

but they turned out alright -

pity there's none left of this batch for Christmas. Back to the kitchen again then.

Keep Cadbury Independant ~ Its British Chocolate C' mon ITS CHRISTMAS !!

Keep Cadbury independant - 15th December 2009

Just quickly before Christmas I could not let this go unnoticed.

Chocolate plays a big part in most of our lives and especially at christmas, and Cadbury's milk chocolate is one of my favorites.
With so many out of work because companies have moved out of the country or jobs threatened with redundancies it comes as quite a shock to find that a big food giant Kraft Inc are to make a hostile bid on our beloved British born and bred Cadbury's chocolate.
Cadbury's which originated from Bournville, Birmingham has been made by us for generations and generations - but so many of the things that we made great have eventually gone out of our country - it then looses its charm that made it great in the first place - The jobs and the skills go and we are left unemployed, eventually the country suffers.

Don't we love those Chocolate fountains
and our Chocolate santa's

For anyone still interested :-0
This is the news that instigated this post -

British and Irish workers at Cadbury Plc will launch a major campaign on Tuesday 15th December to fend off a hostile bid from Kraft Foods Inc and so avoid job losses and pay cuts at the confectionery maker.
Britain's largest trade union Unite said on Thursday it was organising the demonstration in Cadbury's home city of Birmingham the day after top executives publish an official defence document to fight off the bid from the American giant.
Cadbury workers from the UK and Dublin will join together to resist the Kraft bid, which they say will saddle Cadbury with enormous debt and involve job losses and pay cuts to meet its massive borrowing needs for the bid.

The "Keep Cadbury Independent" campaign will be launched at midday on December 15, with support from local members of parliament, at Cadbury's historic Bournville home, which houses the group's main British chocolate factory.

"Cadbury is a great UK success story -- and it was and is not for sale. But suddenly a hostile bid and swarming speculators has thrown its future, its investment plans and jobs of thousands of workers here and in Ireland up in the air," Unite's assistant general secretary Len McCluskey said in a statement.


The union will also urge Cadbury shareholders to reject the bid, citing Kraft's poor record in takeovers and falling share value, and concerns that investment decisions will be taken outside the UK. It will take the campaign to Parliament in London on the following day, December 16.
Kraft posted its cash and share offer to Cadbury shareholders last Friday. The bid is currently worth 724p, while Cadbury's share price is 8.5 percent higher at 785-1/2p. Shareholders have until February 2 to decide whether to accept it.

SO ONE LAST WORD
" could we please keep our chocolate"
Hmmmm i can see a film being made out of this one !

Any way if you lasted all the way down here and read it through thank you.
Your comments would be appreciated maybe you have a similar story too.
NORMAL SERVICES WILL RESUME SHORTLY

;-)

This Christmas

It'll probably be raining here .... again.
But my daughter and her young family have jetted off to sunny South Africa for 4 weeks -

its summer there, but this autumn and before the rain put a damper on things we were able to spend some days out together and that included trying out the new bike that little un got for her birthday.

This stately home is on my doorstep.

and has lots of lovely walks all around it which you can enjoy for free.

Walled gardens - you can imagine how this garden would have looked in the 19th Century - stocked to the gunnels with vegetables and flowers - the trees beyond are where the fairy rings can be found. However nosey parker thought maybe this was her new home and wanted to explore so off she went its a pity she can't read yet ;-)

Yes that means you too!

be back soon with a visions of lovely ness - well my christmas nest - (what's left of it) :-)

Love Ginny xx