Jean adored Christmas, she would plan it from 26th December for the following year. The house would become Santa's grotto in the blink of an eye, sounds great doesn't it? But when your 15yrs old and you come home from school to see an inflatable santa popping out the chimney and reindeer on the lawn and more lights than the whole of Gloucestershire it was embarrassing, you would walk through the door and the mat would shout ho ho ho merry Christmas which would set of the Robin dangling from the door frame that would sing we wish you a merry Christmas as you walked into Santa's grotto... huge tree with an entire woolworth department of tinsel hanging on it and a train set running around the base through the Christmas village she had set up. We would spend hours making cards and decorations infront of the fire in the light of the Xmas tree... she would always be front and centre for the school play and little donkey would always make her cry at church she would spend hours making our costumes and christingles for christingle service and and she loved midnight mass, then searching the sky for the guiding star, We grew up but she didn't she kept her passion for Xmas showing up at the house dressed as a elf with bags of stuff for the kids singing carols and bursting with joy for Xmas.. I Darent forget to mention trying to shop with her in the lead up to Xmas... OMG... God help u if shaking stevens came on cus she would grab you and dance with u no matter where u were . Jean Phillips the orginal flash mob! 

Mincepies, Christmas cakes and puddings stories told by the fire snuggled in... the best of times 

When she left she took the heart out of christmas leaving us with memories that make u glow up and tear up..

Jean Phillips the true Christmas fairy