Tag: Kissing Bough

Let It Snow

  Good morning! Have you had the first snow of the season? Mr Darcy did 🙂 There is snow at Pemberley in this excerpt from one of the few books where I wrote about the Christmas season. I hope you’ll enjoy it.       Excerpt from MISS DARCY’S COMPANION The morning before Christmas dawned …

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Advent Calendar Day 11 ~ The Christmas Bough

Hello, everyone! Today’s treat is some time under the Christmas Bough. Even in Jane Austen’s time, the Christmas Bough was an old tradition. It had made an appearance in the 14th century as an effigy of the Holy Family surrounded by a couple of hoops festooned with greenery – holy, ivy, mistletoe, bay, rosemary or …

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