Joyeux Noel!
Dec. 25th, 2007 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonHappy Christmas/Yule/Late Solstice and very lake Hanukkah to all my F-list.
I hope that you are spending the holidays in ways that you're enjoying; whether that be the full festive fiasco, or the relaxed barbecue under a tree.
If you, like a few of my friends in far-flung cities are actually having a rubbish time, I can at least offer the comfort that it will make all future holidays look better by comparison, and the suggestion that you spend the time reading that novel you've been putting off and ignoring the chaos around you. Because buying into it will only cause you pain. Fake nausea if your attendance is being demanded!
Our house is having a very calm time with lunch postponed to late dinner (should get onto that in a minute ...) and fabulous gifts including the complete House of Eliott for me (costume fiends of a certain age will know what I am talking about) and Banksy's book of art for J.
This year Sydney is deliciously cool, so we were able to take the new Nerf torpedo down to the park and throw it around until our arms gave out. If you lack a boat, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as faffing about down at the park with something to kick or throw. We briefly considered stealing one of our neighbour's children so we didn't look like idiots being the only Nerfy adults about, but decided that I'm short enough to get past a cursory examination. There were two other sets of adults, one with a remote-controlled plane, one with a new football. Brilliant.
My resolution for 2008 is to play in the park at every available opportunity.
I hope that for all of you, 2008 brings joy, peace, and plenty of time for play.
I hope that you are spending the holidays in ways that you're enjoying; whether that be the full festive fiasco, or the relaxed barbecue under a tree.
If you, like a few of my friends in far-flung cities are actually having a rubbish time, I can at least offer the comfort that it will make all future holidays look better by comparison, and the suggestion that you spend the time reading that novel you've been putting off and ignoring the chaos around you. Because buying into it will only cause you pain. Fake nausea if your attendance is being demanded!
Our house is having a very calm time with lunch postponed to late dinner (should get onto that in a minute ...) and fabulous gifts including the complete House of Eliott for me (costume fiends of a certain age will know what I am talking about) and Banksy's book of art for J.
This year Sydney is deliciously cool, so we were able to take the new Nerf torpedo down to the park and throw it around until our arms gave out. If you lack a boat, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as faffing about down at the park with something to kick or throw. We briefly considered stealing one of our neighbour's children so we didn't look like idiots being the only Nerfy adults about, but decided that I'm short enough to get past a cursory examination. There were two other sets of adults, one with a remote-controlled plane, one with a new football. Brilliant.
My resolution for 2008 is to play in the park at every available opportunity.
I hope that for all of you, 2008 brings joy, peace, and plenty of time for play.
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Date: 2007-12-25 10:01 am (UTC)hope to see you in the new year for the torchwood meet up.
Love
abs and JackBear
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Date: 2007-12-25 10:08 am (UTC)J also gave me Doctor Who Season Three, Ah, Captain Jack ... you make everything better ...
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Date: 2007-12-25 12:11 pm (UTC)... I'm intregued....
i one measured JackBear, and he was 2 and 1/2 mini jacks tall... i didnt have a tape measure at the time, only a captain jack action figure... that was a weirdly hyper day...
ooooooooh season 3 dr who. listen to the commentry for last of the timelords... absolutly hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2007-12-25 12:15 pm (UTC)It's about as cunning as weasel with a PhD in cunningness, but wil take a bit of time ...
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Date: 2007-12-25 12:23 pm (UTC)its gto DT, JB and FA commenting... lost count of how many times i have watched it now... oh and the commentry for Utopia is also ammusing too!
ah that cunning. most excellent!
(i now have a weird urge to watch Blackadder... hummm.)
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Date: 2007-12-25 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 12:41 pm (UTC)oh i cant wait for that to start... i'm soooo hyper!!