normality.

[bramble]

Just wanted to ask, when do we/you return to normality?
I know there are peeps on here who work throughout the Christmas season.
Then, there are others who don't celebrate the season at all.
So, is it the date on the calander, is it the return date to work, or is it the date for planting your first seeds of the year.

[Florence Fennel]

Work on Tuesday for me dear Bramble, but I've never been normal

[veggiechicken]

Like Flo, I'm not "normal" - but you knew that anyway
I like January 1st, as that's the start of a new year and who knows what surprises and delights await me

[Thelma Sanders]

The decs will come down tomorrow, and then garden/allotment planning will begin in earnest

There are onions just waiting to be sown ............

[Alison]

Back to work Monday 4th with the decorations coming down 12th night.

[Nannysally99]

Half my 'decorations ' and I use that word loosely , will be taken down tomorrow. Cards will be in the recycle bin. Lights packed away. Tree can stay till 12th night, it's not real.
I don't have to go back to work until Friday, but I bet I'm in there on Tuesday for a nice break and catch up.
Normality will return

[mothhawk]

Back to work tomorrow, decs down next week when I have the time to do it, but before Friday definitely.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Normality is when the GR closes

[Verinda]

I suppose for us its the 12th night when the decorations come down but for me its really 2nd Jan when things start to feel normal again (whatever normal is!) and Christmas starts to recede

[Alison]

Finding it surprising how many people take their decorations down so early but I'm also always surprised how early some people put them up. Wouldn't feel right taking them down before 12th night but I don't like putting them up before the weekend before Christmas so they're not really up for long.

[lottie dolly]

Glad when it's all over this year FULL STOP,although some peeps have worked all through,there are those that start back monday,a lot of trades do not go back until after new year,so i would say normal as we know it,will be 1 week into 2016,by then i hope my brain can revert to some life within,i got a garden and lotties to do

[skeggijon]

I've been off work since 6th November and don't think I can properly consider things back to normal until I'm allowed back. Really hoping that should be second week of January.

[seasprout]

I'll take my decks down straight after new year, I'm back in work on Monday 4th... I am yet to achieve 'Normal'.

[muddled]

My husband works nights and has worked all over the holiday season.
His first night off will be this Wednesday so I will leave the decs and tree up til then so we can spend at least one evening together curled up on the sofa eating quality street and watching a naff christmas movie under twinkly lights and tinsel!

Straight after that though, it all comes down!
I like a cleaning blitz and touch of paint on the woodwork so the house feels fresh and lovely on January 1st....ready for the sowing frenzy to commence

[Hazel at the Hill]

I'm with Alison on putting up the tree/decs on the weekend before Christmas, and taking them down 12th Night.

Back to work 'properly' for this desk jockey will be on the 4th (although I will be behind the desk to do a couple of half days this week).