I've never been one for keeping the Christmas decorations up for ages... I enjoy hanging them, and I enjoy the colour and sparkles... and I also enjoy packing them all away, cleaning the living room and returning to a more normal, albeit slower, rhythm.

This morning I am enjoying the scent of furniture polish (unscented but you know what I mean), snipping around stamps ready to pop them in to the Leprosy Mission collection box at church, and then settling down to do some more of the Christmas jigsaw.

Some friends and family like to keep their decorations up until Epiphany, others until Candlemas, but for me there is nothing quite like the feeling that I can return to work next week knowing that the decks are clear, the carpets are hoovered and, for now at least, the dusting is up to date!