I should be used to this by now.
Boxing Day is Dad time......fact!
Although earlier, I made more fudge......we had almost run out.....but then sent it to my ex's house, with Oliver and Edwin....along with his Yule gifts and two!boxes of truffles!
So....busy until about 2pm, then I had to sort out a pressie for my friend...she unfortunately has her birthday in January....(she lives in the USA.....so postage can be a problem,).......however, I've started her gift....already have something......
But I'd forgotten how long it takes to source the threads needed for a cross stitch project.
Deep into the project now.....Hope that she likes it.
Showing posts with label Yule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yule. Show all posts
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Thursday, 4 December 2014
WTF.....to coin a crude phrase
The Coca-Cola wagon was here in Morecambe today.
What I really don't get is why people were almost "thronging" to see it.
Surely one HGV is much like another, despite livery and lights?
Maybe I missed out on a life changing moment, but I very much doubt it.
This wagon is to me, all that is wrong about this time of year.....crazy consumerism.
I love the family gathering aspect, but stuff like the Coca-Cola wagon, are just opportunists jumping on the more and more commericialised aspect of Yule
What I really don't get is why people were almost "thronging" to see it.
Surely one HGV is much like another, despite livery and lights?
Maybe I missed out on a life changing moment, but I very much doubt it.
This wagon is to me, all that is wrong about this time of year.....crazy consumerism.
I love the family gathering aspect, but stuff like the Coca-Cola wagon, are just opportunists jumping on the more and more commericialised aspect of Yule
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Post Yule/Christmas
Well, it's all over for another year.
I hope everyone got what they wanted
Seeing as I didn't particularly want anything, it was nice to get what gifts I did.
Oliver, had been on my Amazon wish list and plucked things from it. A Symphonic Jean Michel Jarre, and a couple of books about English language. For two of my three years at uni I took English Language alongside, Literature and Creative Writing. I dropped it in the third year in favour of Creative Writing. I wish there had been a way to carry all three on. When you study English Language and it's roots it is very useful if you have an understanding of other languages as well, as you can see where the words that we use in everyday language have come from different roots, due to us being invaded constantly until 1066. I won't bore you with any more of this.
Other things I got, a whistle/bird call shaped like an owl, an owl handbag, a jigsaw, loads of sweets, liquorice, fudge, drumstick lollies. I did get a couple of boxes of chocolates, but they were from people at work who don't seem to have noticed that I don't eat chocolate, but I still appreciate the though and will share the sweets with others.
Samantha managed to track down a copy of a Tom Holt book that I had only been able to get for my Kindle, this one isn't signed, but it means, I think, that I now have all his comic novels.
I finished seasonal knitting on Christmas Day and took John, Samantha's partner, his scarf last night and stayed for a short while at their party.
There is one weird thing that has happened. I have lost some weight! :O, not much, but it is now obvious to me that I definitely "comfort" eat when I am alone, so need to do something about that.
This has meandered around for long enough, so I'll sign off.
I hope everyone got what they wanted
Seeing as I didn't particularly want anything, it was nice to get what gifts I did.
Oliver, had been on my Amazon wish list and plucked things from it. A Symphonic Jean Michel Jarre, and a couple of books about English language. For two of my three years at uni I took English Language alongside, Literature and Creative Writing. I dropped it in the third year in favour of Creative Writing. I wish there had been a way to carry all three on. When you study English Language and it's roots it is very useful if you have an understanding of other languages as well, as you can see where the words that we use in everyday language have come from different roots, due to us being invaded constantly until 1066. I won't bore you with any more of this.
Other things I got, a whistle/bird call shaped like an owl, an owl handbag, a jigsaw, loads of sweets, liquorice, fudge, drumstick lollies. I did get a couple of boxes of chocolates, but they were from people at work who don't seem to have noticed that I don't eat chocolate, but I still appreciate the though and will share the sweets with others.
Samantha managed to track down a copy of a Tom Holt book that I had only been able to get for my Kindle, this one isn't signed, but it means, I think, that I now have all his comic novels.
I finished seasonal knitting on Christmas Day and took John, Samantha's partner, his scarf last night and stayed for a short while at their party.
There is one weird thing that has happened. I have lost some weight! :O, not much, but it is now obvious to me that I definitely "comfort" eat when I am alone, so need to do something about that.
This has meandered around for long enough, so I'll sign off.
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