Flipping tradition . 12th night being the ‘right’ time to take down Christmas Decorations. But as ours were barely up by Christmas Eve, I decided to take them down on the 21st night. Or the 14th of January.

When at a Christmas Tree Farm in Australia it would have been foolish not to purchase a Raw Prawn Christmas bauble to hang resplendently in our Northern Hemisphere tree.

Now Mr Prawn is boxed up and ready to be packed away with all the other tree decorations from around the world.

Taking down Christmas so late in January has plunged me straight into a different sort of festival. Mid-Winter Decluttering. As I write this the house looks appalling as I am mid-point of the mid-winter urge to declutter. The clutter is everywhere having been pulled out from all the places clutter gathers. Writing a blog when I should be decluttering is unforgivable. Maybe I am double pondering. Pondering while pondering what on earth to do with all this stuff.

Including the prawn!