Emily Tellwright

Author, Artist, Publisher

Category: Christmas and New Year

Articles about Christmas and New Year from Emily Tellwright’s blog.

  • Epiphany

    Epiphany in a country park.Tall pine trees with sun shining through them casting long shadows surrounded by blue sky and other smaller trees

    Packing Christmas away

    Epiphany: time to take the decorations down and go back to work. (Actually, we take ours down before Epiphany these days, as no one visits after New Year’s Day and there is a lot more celebrating in the run up to Christmas than there was in the time of the twelve days’ festivities.) The process always reminds me of the Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows when he volunteers to repack the basket after his impromptu picnic with the Rat at the beginning of the book:

    ‘Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket.… Read the whole post “Epiphany”

  • Merry Christmas

    Preparations for Christmas: an acrylic painting of a wood burning stove with wrapped parcels, flask, tea, brandy glass and a mince pie set out in front of it on a red fabric and white fur cape.

    Busy

    I’m tired. What with the launch of Castle Sefton Press‘ first book – Ghost Train – and preparations for Christmas, I think that’s only natural. And it’s good to be tired from doing productive things. At the last minute too, CSP also had to deal with some new EU legislation, the new General Product Safety Regulation, which means that we have to fulfil various disclosure and traceability obligations and ensure that our books are safe for EU customers. I don’t think there is too much to worry about, unless we come up with something like J K Rowling’s Monster Book of Monsters.… Read the whole post “Merry Christmas”

  • What Will You Carry Through to the New Year?

    A charcoal, chalk and coloured pencil drawing of a duck, a brass candlestick, a bottle of wine a wine glass with red liquid and some holly on a table.

    Christmas is fast approaching.

    It is once more the time of short, dark days, warm glows and twinkly lights, hearty meals and inward pleasures. Like Clyde in Ghost Train, I have prepared the dark, rich foods of the heart of winter: mincemeat, fruit cake and a round splodge of a Christmas pudding. The first mince pies, a delight enhanced by their long absence, have been baked and eaten, I have rooted out my plastic apron with the holly pattern, and the artwork for this year’s Christmas cards is completed.… Read the whole post “What Will You Carry Through to the New Year?”