{"id":47,"date":"2021-12-03T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:46:02","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-bit-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re now in December so The Wee Museum of Memory is getting ready for Christmas with trees, tinsel and presents…

This week we had a visit from a group of lottery jackpot winners organised by Camelot, who brought us a new tree, decorations, presents and hampers for some of our regular users. Due to concerns about the new Covid varient, we decided not to hold a party as we had planned, so will give out the hampers individually. We’re sure that they will still be much enjoyed. May was delighted with her one yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jackpot winners with some staff and volunteers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hamper with festive treats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kermit has been having a look at some of the presents under the tree and wondering if there is one for him…Maybe one of them might be a selection box or a Beano album? We’ve been sharing memories of our childhood Christmases with visitors: treats, family rituals, favourite foods…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kermit with our new Christmas tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of our visitors have added their memories to our Christmas Memory Tree… ‘Dressing the tree and eating Christmas lunch together and then showing Granny my presents from Santa.’; ‘Making trifle on Christmas Eve with my dad and eating all the sponge fingers!’ ‘ Leaving my dad’s long woolly scout sock at the side of my bed. Having a good feel of it in the morning before starting to empty it. Always had a pack of chocolate cigaretts, a mandarin and a threepenny bit among other things.’ ‘Kids wanting to get up at 4.00 as Santa had been…LOL.’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s still room on the tree for your memories if you are passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas Memory tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are also pleased to have two new members of staff working on cataloguing our collection of objects: Louise and Naomi. This is going to be a mammoth task, as regulars will know our museum is packed with donations. Louise started earlier this year to help co-ordinate our application process for museum accreditation and Naomi started last month as part of the Government Kickstarter programme. Welcome and good luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naomi and Louise starting work on our collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re now in December so The Wee Museum of Memory is getting ready for Christmas with trees, tinsel and presents… This week we had a visit from a group of lottery jackpot winners organised by Camelot, who brought us a new tree, decorations, presents and hampers for some of our regular users. Due to concerns… Continue reading It’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingmemory.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}