Already ?

Blimey. Is it Christmas already ? My apologies for the long silence on here, and the abrupt disappearance of The Box. Life has been quite exceptionally fraught of late, and LJ is one of the things which has gone by the board.

I'm now home at my parents' for Christmas, so with luck a little more lazing will ensue. Though quite slowly, since the conveniently unsecured neighbour's wireless has gone away and I'm in dial-up land :(

I've been working from (the parents') home today, meaning I've been tied to the laptop and my contributions to Christmas preparations have thus far been limited to facetious suggestions. Rather disappointingly, only one has come close to being adopted: I tried to persuade the mother to ice a suitable passage from - say - Luke's gospel onto the Christmas cake in shorthand. She impolitely declined, but did add a Pitman rendition of 'Happy Christmas' to the longhand version she'd written in pink icing. At least she says that's what those squiggly bits are.

Have you heard the news today, oh boy!

Having done a brief putter across today's friends entries, I found myself confused. Why is everyone cross with the Pope ? I asked the mother, who filled me in.

Oh right, that explains it.

Does anyone else frequently get their news backwards, having to deduce the day's events from the LJ posts ?

It's not like I didn't hear any news today, just every time I happened across a radio they were talking about Whittards going into administration (which, for clarification, is less serious than global warning but more troubling than people being gay).