Driving home for Christmas

[venta]

Last week, I invited people to swap Christmas traditions. There weren't many takers, so I present here a small selection of traditions anyone can choose from.

1. Read 101 Dalmations.
2. Buy a new bauble for the tree.
3. Read Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letterson Christmas Eve, preferably an illustrated edition.

(These traditions belong to huskyteer, lnr and me, respectively.)

Let me know if you give any of them a whirl. Especially if you're currently gritting your teeth for a Christmas with not-especially-compatible relations (in which case, my sympathy!)

I'm currently indulging in another Christmas tradition, that of being in crap traffic on the M1. I don't recommend it at all.

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[zotz]

Quiet, in the main. grahamb dropped by on Monday for tea and biscuits, and I saw darkgoblin on Saturday for the first time in about a decade. A friend (WINOLJ) who moved to New South Wales between ten and fifteen years ago is staying over Hogmanay (with her Bloke and two kids) and I randomly bumped into my ex from the mid-nineties (WINOLJE) in Glasgow a few weeks ago. But apart from lots of old friends, fairly quiet.

You?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm also having a nice chunk of quiet, at my parents' house. Due to general attrition of home-town, etc, there is a bit of a lack of old friends around, which is a shame. Once upon a time I could rely on a solid cohort of drinking buddies on Christmas Eve, but not these days. So I'm forced to sit in the warm, on a sofa, instead of crowded in a corner somewhere in a pub :-)

[zotz]

My heart bleeds for you, obviously.