Homestay Bed & Breakfast

Christmas month

Decem­ber, my favourite month of the year. I do hope we have some more vis­i­tors over Christ­mas. In the past we have had such a won­der­ful time with guests from Europe, Asia, and Amer­ica shar­ing sto­ries and customs.

One par­tic­u­larly mem­o­rable year we had guests from Ger­many and on Christ­mas Eve they joined me, John and some friends. We all swapped sto­ries about our dif­fer­ent cus­toms; food, car­ols, gift giv­ing, etc. I felt the spirit of Christ­mas very pro­foundly as we sang together in Ger­man and Eng­lish the beau­ti­ful carol Silent Night. It was a cool damp evening but we felt cosy with a warm­ing drink and some yummy food and wrapped up in rugs. As I write this I’m won­der­ing why we didn’t come inside. I’m pleased we didn’t, it might have bro­ken the spell.

Another year we had a warm­hearted and inter­est­ing lady who had recently retired as a Pro­fes­sor of His­tory from an Eng­lish uni­ver­sity. She had been with us for three weeks by Christ­mas, even help­ing me make the cake, so as a friend, by now, joined in all the cel­e­bra­tions with our fam­ily includ­ing com­ing with us to mid­night mass. Clearly that was also another blessed Christmas.

The par­cel is sent, and indeed has arrived, to Lon­don, the gifts have been bought, menu decided, some gifts wrapped, so now I have to dec­o­rate the house and tree, prac­tise car­ols with the grand­chil­dren, fin­ish wrap­ping gifts and pre­pare the food. I love it all.

By Karyn | Published in: Off The Steps | Tags: Christmas, Customs, Guests