Taking the decorations down

It’s the twelfth day of Christmas.

The tree has been plucked of its lights and baubles – they’ve been wrapped and stuffed into boxes for another year. The tree itself, an artificial one, has also been dismantled and put to bed in its cardboard box.

The room looks quite bare now depleted of fairy lights and sparkly things. But it simultaneously feels good to be a little more uncluttered again. A new year, a clean, new feeling.

Both cats love a cardboard box day and have been doing their level best to get into all of them.

A world of new smells and tactile deliciousness, they’ve spent the morning crawling all over them and have quite enjoyed themselves pulling on shreds of packing tape and loose labels.

So helpful.