CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
...where is it? British friend Emma came back to Bordeaux yesterday and told me about her walk down Regent St and all the beautiful Christmas decorations. Today she is going to decorate her home and bake hundreds of Christmas mince tarts.. American friend Janice flashed us an iPhone photo of her "Christmas Holiday Pagent" Christmas tree which she decorated last weekend. A tree of childhood Christmas dreams. . I bought a xmas tree yesterday and spent all afternoon decorating it with my daughter. I drove her nuts with my styalised colour scheme... No, Colombe I won't have green plastic bead chains on my zinc glass bauble theme tree!! I have baked my sister's wonderful Christmas cake.. There are truly beautiful Christmas fairy lights on the trees down the main avenues in Bordeaux.. I am having a Christmas Treat Cooking Workshop with at least 9 women here in my home on Saturday.. So why aren't we all feeling "Christmassy?" France is brilliant fo...