The 6th of December, what has become our annual Christmas tree day. Since I met Deborah, she has, we have, bought a real tree each year, always on December the 6th, the established day of decoration and wrapping. Each tree is named, and this year's is named 'Hestia', inspired by Deb's poem 'From Eye to Hand to Paper', which was in turn inspired by the bonfire owl painting by Charles Tunnicliffe in the Ladybird book about autumn. Until that dreamed-of day when we can afford to live together, Deb must decorate today while I await to see the results.
I've prepared for tomorrow's Christmas Fair fund-raising event at Stapeley Grange. I've burned three CDs for sale, and will display the completed cover artwork. If I had use of the Crewe community gallery I could auction this artwork there, perhaps. I also realised that the old 'songlink' links to my albums are now all dead - annoying! So I spent over an hour making new 'smart link' pages to all of my (and Fall in Green's, and Oldfield 1's) albums and singles.
After that, I made basic lyric video outlines for the three Will You Be My Snowflake? tracks, for that single release. This will be my first single with three tracks. I didn't want to clash or take away any shine from the Christmas Tails release so the single will come out in the middle of the month without fanfare. Then again, all of my music is released without fanfare or any promotion whatsoever. Promotion of my work is something I've always feared and hated, perhaps due to my parents overwhelmingly negative reaction to everything I've ever made.
The day has flown, but I've done my best with it. Onwards through time we stride.
