I keep a Christmas card list with my old Christmas cards, to remind me who to write to. It’s strange every Christmas when I pull it out because things have changed over the course of the year. 2010 amendments included, one couple split, one friend married, my last grandparent passed, three additions to the world, two [...]
Christmas socks
Warning! You move your Christmas socks around in the drawer all year, only using them if the washing situation gets really desperate and then you hope that nobody spots them. So…DON’T FORGET to wear them on the big day. You probably have more than one pair, how do decide which ones to wear? Simples! Wear [...]
Ghosts of Christmas
It’s a Christmas Carol time of year. And it got me thinking, what would the ghosts of my Christmas past, present and future tell me if they woke me up this Christmas Eve? Perhaps it would be something like this (captured in a more compelling, dramatic and colourful televisual way of course) Slightly scary figure 1: [...]
The insider
I know a girl who knows a guy, who knows this other guy who reckons that Santa has been stuck in a chimney since last Christmas! The girls friend’s friend said that the big guy is stuck in the chimney of the house next door to his mum’s house. He reckons that you can see [...]
The C word
That’s right, as the Christmas month of December is very nearly upon us all (thank Santa for that), it’s time to add some tinsel to ourselves and to our thoughts. The windows are getting frostier, the wine is getting warmer, our clothes are getting sparklier and our hearts are getting warmer. Or are they? This [...]
