Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

My calendar gave to me….
A big Santa face.

Don’t feel like saying much today. Christmas is creeping closer and we haven’t decorated and I still have 13 cards to make.
I’m not that worried about the decorating. I’m hoping to leave the ceiling decorations as long as possible because I realised last year that it’s pointless to put them up any earlier because they fall down right away.
Things were different when I was little. Mum would climb up the ladder and pin them to the ceiling. But sometimes there would be a hard spot and she’d have to hammer it in and sometimes the pin would bend. And it left a lot of tiny holes in the ceiling.
The only thing worse than a hard bit of ceiling was a soft bit of ceiling. Sometimes a pin would fall out and we’d have to find it. I didn’t wear slippers much then because I didn’t like having my feet sweat.
It was also bothersome because we had to move the furniture around to put the ladder up in the first place and some places the ladder couldn’t go so it was precarious.
Then a few years ago I decided to use white tac to do the job. It’s pretty good but some blobs are still stuck to the ceiling and taking some down tore the paper (yes my dad put textured paper on the ceiling) so it’s not without it’s problems.
But now the tac is not as tacky so it falls down more.