So I put up the little tree and a few decorations yesterday and, just as I suspected, Loki was all over everything in a flash. In previous years I’ve had the tree up on a stand near the bookcase, but since that’s now become Loki’s territory I tried the big table in the livingroom this time. I hope once Loki gets used to it being there he’ll leave it alone and, as I have to separate the cats when nobody is home anyhow, he can be locked out of the livingroom instead of locked in it.

I actually quite like the change of having it on the big table as this also means I could put out a set of the pretty white lights Susan left with me for the headboard. And I can also display the two beautiful pop-up Christmas books that Teuchter has given me. The one on the right arrived the other day and I decided to open it straight away after reading what it was on the Amazon receipt because I knew I’d want to look at it lots during the holiday season. It’s just as fab as the Twelve Days of Christmas one I got last year. Thanks again, Teuchter.

And so things are feeling quite Christmasy around casa az now…