Thursday, December 19th, 2013
I visited my parents last week and they had this amazing festive diorama laid out on the front room sideboard which took my dad ages to set up. He sculpted the snowy base from polystyrene and painted it, then populated this winter wonderland with ornaments and models and buildings he'd bought from a shop.
It's one of those lovely alpine set-ups, complete with illuminated shops and even a "roaring" fire around which children sing carols and warm their hands while roasting chestnuts. It all looked amazing in the dark, the sort of place you wish you could be transported to for a proper, snowy, traditional Christmas (rather than the gale-force hell we tend to get in the UK).
I took a few pictures of the diorama and wished I could transform into a Borrower and explore it on foot. But while I might feel small much of the time, I'll never be small enough to properly take a look around my parents' winter wonderland.
Merry Christmas!
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| Here's the alpine wonderland in the cold light of day |
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| My dad's Nativity, also designed himself. He's retired, he can do things like this... |
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| My mum's startlingly blue Christmas tree. Yes, it's a bit lop-sided, but I didn't like to say. |
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| Yes, really, it is a Christmas stationery shop |
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| Father Christmas feeding Rudolph with something probably far too rich for his diet |
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Slightly moodier pic from the side. They need more street lighting over there,
someone could get mugged. |
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