{"id":7219,"date":"2022-12-18T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:27:49","slug":"sunday-18-december-7-more-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-18-december-7-more-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 18 December – 7 More Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday\u2019s blog<\/a> said that my focus for this week would be more decorating to ensure that all our Christmas guests have a magical time \u2013 and that is pretty much all I\u2019ve been doing and I\u2019m still not finished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In previous years, we have watched some of the television programmes when UK stately homes prepare for Christmas and put up their decorations and light trails through the grounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all 4 g\u00eetes to be decorated, as well as our new exterior decorations we showed last week, Christmas at Kergudon has, at times, felt similar to Christmas at Chatsworth \/ Blenheim Palace \/ Highclere \/ insert name of stately home here <\/em>\u2013 just without the armies of people and vast budgets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we had guests arrive in Gite Priory<\/a> yesterday, the priority was getting that g\u00eete completed first.\u00a0 Every year we have tried to add something new to the decoration so that the amazing and dramatic space that the g\u00eete is, is suitably festive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year we bought and decorated a 3 metre tree which looked amazing \u2013 but we could still have a larger one as I was concerned that the tree couldn\u2019t be seen by guests enjoying their morning coffee in the four-poster bed on the mezzanine (or their late night liqueur \/ digestif \/ cocoa as appropriate)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with buying a taller tree was that anything taller was also much wider at the base and, while we have the height, we don\u2019t have as much space at the bottom for anything wider.  David had the idea to but a second 3 metre tree and, as they come in sections, add some additional bits to increase the height but retain the width.  So we did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, and the reason we needed a few more decorations and more time, we now have a 4\u00bd metre tree in Priory and it looks fantastic.\u00a0 Sadly, I\u2019m not sure the photos do it justice as it looks so much better \u2018in the flesh\u2019 and it certainly pleased our guests who arrived last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Gite Granary<\/a> also occupied for Christmas this year, we wanted to make sure that was suitably festive too and we hope we\u2019ve achieved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As previous years there is a tree, although I think more beautiful this time; and garlands over the fireplaces on the ground and first floor.\u00a0 This year though we have also added a garland in the arch between the kitchen and dining area which looks really good \u2013 but I think next year will need more lights and small baubles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have also finished the decorations in Hayloft \u2013 which look lovely \u2013 but, as the g\u00eete itself isn\u2019t made up (we will finish tomorrow) I haven\u2019t taken any photos yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week\u2019s blog also said that I had started with the decorations in our own home but they weren\u2019t finished so I didn\u2019t share pictures then.  As our house is the HQ for everything we do in the g\u00eetes, while the decorations are complete, there are so many boxes and things that need to be put away when everything is done I haven\u2019t taken any here either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While decorating has taken up 90% of my time, we did get to one Christmas Fair this week \u2013 just to say that we had been to one.\u00a0 This was the fair dedicated to artisanal produce, both local, regional and from further afield, held in Pleyben.\u00a0 Last year it seemed larger, and was held in a larger space, and was where we found the crafter who made the lampshades for us for Hayloft.\u00a0 She was back this year too and remembered us, and liked the photos we showed her of the shades in the g\u00eete<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next Sunday is the \u2018big\u2019 day, for us Brits at least as most Europeans focus their celebrations on 24th<\/sup>, so I suspect I won\u2019t have the time to write a blog or that you will have the time to read it!\u00a0 A week on Sunday is then New Year’s Day when I hope to write something and probably do my traditional round-up of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will however share some pictures of Hayloft and Stable when decorated in the next couple of days on our Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, I will let you enjoy this World Cup final which has become much closer than it looked as though it would have been in the first 79 minutes!  I\u2019m not sure who to support.  Obviously, living here, France would be an option but, having been in Buenos Aires for the first week of the tournament, I\u2019ve got a soft spot for Argentina and would have loved to still be there now to experience the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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