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With Xmas just over a week away, it’s time to get organised.

Hopefully by now all of the presents should have been bought and wrapped. If this is the case, then hats off to you as you are way ahead of schedule. From a personal point of view, I still appear to have loads of work to do and am beginning to really panic it’s not all going to get done.

When you work, it’s really hard trying to organise everything, but I’m hopeful by Christmas that somehow it will all be sorted.

If only it was just the gifts we all had to worry about. Of course, all of the food needs to be organised. This in itself can be a mammoth job. We all love our roast turkey and naturally we have to have all of the trimmings that go with it.

I am a bit silly though as it takes me most of the morning to prepare the dinner and then when I lay the table, I don’t do it justice. Every year my old chipped plates come out, along with my mismatched cutlery. Its always been okay for me, but this year I have the whole family descending upon me, so I think I am going to have to make a real effort to impress.

I am looking to buy some new tableware especially for the occasion. I have found some that I really like, and even though it’s a big costly, I think it’s going to be worth every single penny to go one better than my elder sister!!

At Christmas because my sister is pretty loaded, she likes to impress us all. Last year she gave us all wine gifts. She choose a wine cooler for me. It wasn’t just any old cooler though, it was sterling silver. In all honesty, it is absolutely beautiful and I really do love it.

I know the cooler would have set her back a bob or two, so it seems a real waste to put a cheap bottle of wine in it, so I am going to have to blow the budget and buy some decent wine. If I at least have an expensive bottle to start with, then once we have had a few glasses, and relaxed a bit, I can bring out the cheaper bottles.

Whatever happens though, I know we will have a great Christmas, as all the family will be together and having fun and thats what its all about.