The hunt

Christmas will soon be upon us. Yesterday we had a grand hunt. We located our artificial Christmas tree & decorations. We intend to put them up later in the week. Angie, our cleaner is due tomorrow. We thought we'd wait until she's been, then the house should be nice & clean. It's always difficult to clean around the tree etc, so we've cancelled Angie for the following two weeks.They're both bank holidays & I dare say she will appreciate being able to have a bit more time at home with her family.

More frustrating was the hunt for Christmas wrapping paper. We did have a couple of rolls plus several odd sheets & a box of festive gift tags. We abandoned buying presents years ago - too much hassle when you have to face crowds in a wheelchair - so we've not needed paper etc since we moved here 11 years ago. This year, though, we have bought a few little things - one for Angie by way of thanks for all her hard work keeping us clean & tidy, & one for our Christmas hosts, PD & Lin, for having us. We'll also be taking some bottles of wine with us on the Day to help celebrate the occasion.

So we've hunted & hunted. I think we've looked in every box, every cupboard, in the attic, everywhere we can think of. No paper. 

Did we even bring it with us when we moved house? We both think so. It would be atypical of us to throw something potentially useful like that away. We abhor throwing good stuff away. We tend to be hoarders. 


But where could we have put it? We're going to try the garden shed this afternoon. There's no electricity there. By the time we'd completed the hunt in the house yesterday it was too dark to rummage there. If not, Angie's present will just have to be wrapped in some ordinary gift paper. Then later in the week we'll have to buy some more Xmas paper to wrap up the gift for our friends.


That is unless we find where the older stuff is. We'll probably find it when we put away any excess from the new paper we buy. 


Though maybe.....