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ventaIt's Christmas Eve. We've had cullen skink for lunch, and have braved the crowds in the village to collect the butcher's order. (Dad, who did an independent trip to the village in the car to collect a large and unwieldy bag of non-Christmas-related cat litter, reports that the All-England Bad Drivers' Annual Faff is well underway.)
So it's now time to decorate the house. However, it's not going to plan. The tree has come in from the cold and been decked with lights (normally Dad's job, delegated to me this year on account of his Christmas-tree allergy - he said it was easy, then naturally came and corrected my bulb-placing ;), I've put the little wooden people onto their silver Christmas twig. Other bits and bobs are slowly making their way to the appointed places.
However, no amount of rummaging in the boxes and crates of Christmas decor has yet produced that box. Dad can't remember what it looks like, though he's sure it has a flippy lid. I think it's black and the mother thinks it's gold. We all agree that it contains the strings from which some Christmas cards are hung, and the simple-but-effective devices invented by my adopted grandfather for displaying the rest.
This is serious. Our Christmas groove is extremely well-worn, and this sort of jolt just doesn't happen. The mother bought some new crates a few years back in which to store the baubles and we're all still reeling from the shock of tree decorations coming out of a box which doesn't advertise Fry's Chocolate Tablette. Adjustments usually require written warning, and a decade or so of running-in time.
Obviously, we can source some more string and drawing pins. We could, at a pinch, even knock up some more of the simple-but-effective devices (SBEDs).
But it won't be the same. The drawing pins won't have come out of the little wooden matchbox with the flower on it - they won't be trained in the art of holding strings, and might not know what to do. Can ordinary string, not hallowed by years of use, be relied upon to have cards pegged to it? We're not sure.
All is panic. Check back later to see if a solution was discovered...
So it's now time to decorate the house. However, it's not going to plan. The tree has come in from the cold and been decked with lights (normally Dad's job, delegated to me this year on account of his Christmas-tree allergy - he said it was easy, then naturally came and corrected my bulb-placing ;), I've put the little wooden people onto their silver Christmas twig. Other bits and bobs are slowly making their way to the appointed places.
However, no amount of rummaging in the boxes and crates of Christmas decor has yet produced that box. Dad can't remember what it looks like, though he's sure it has a flippy lid. I think it's black and the mother thinks it's gold. We all agree that it contains the strings from which some Christmas cards are hung, and the simple-but-effective devices invented by my adopted grandfather for displaying the rest.
This is serious. Our Christmas groove is extremely well-worn, and this sort of jolt just doesn't happen. The mother bought some new crates a few years back in which to store the baubles and we're all still reeling from the shock of tree decorations coming out of a box which doesn't advertise Fry's Chocolate Tablette. Adjustments usually require written warning, and a decade or so of running-in time.
Obviously, we can source some more string and drawing pins. We could, at a pinch, even knock up some more of the simple-but-effective devices (SBEDs).
But it won't be the same. The drawing pins won't have come out of the little wooden matchbox with the flower on it - they won't be trained in the art of holding strings, and might not know what to do. Can ordinary string, not hallowed by years of use, be relied upon to have cards pegged to it? We're not sure.
All is panic. Check back later to see if a solution was discovered...
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Date: 2008-12-24 04:37 pm (UTC)Any luck?
(I'll be back later again to read further installments...)
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