Xmas

And it's always the cheap stuff they remove. Goodbye Value sandwich pickle and Hello Christmas Special Deluxe Smooth sandwich pickle.

Obviously at 10x the price I haven't compared the contents but I suspect they're similar...

Showoff :-)

Owain

Especially the latter as these hordes don't know the store, what it carries and at what prices. More often than not more than one person so they keep blocking the asiles while they have discussion about wether that branded jar of Cranberry Sauce is cheaper in Waitrose or Sainsbury's or is it better quality than the own brand in Tesco or Morrisons or is an unknown brand in Aldi/Lidl better value.

Quite SFA.

Aye, a time to quietly get together with those closest (heart not physical), have a decent meal, maybe exchange some small gifts.

The last bit really pisses me off, all this bullshit about how you

I like the small (5 foot ish) trees that are fitted into the premenant sockets on the shops along Front Street in town, lit with static multicoloured lights. Looks so dark and dull when they get taken down. It's dark by 1600 up here mid winter.

Are we still allowed to dream of a White Christmas?

Isn't that considered a bit racist now?

Owain

Up here it gets restickered as "ideal for Hogmanay" (and then Burns Night).

Trust the Scots to think of an excuse to sell any leftover shortbread after Christmas.

Owain

Ah yes, another thing. Trying to get any sense or anything done that involves an office for three weeks from mid Dcember.

Climate change says its a thing of the past.

It probably doesn't make much difference when its sold if it's then coated in batter and deep fried.

Yup. ;-(

Of course.

He he.

Cheers, T i m

I'd hope bread and butter doesn't stay on the shelves for long? ;-)

shortbread

That's Mars Bars not short bread. B-)

I'll let you know. -2 C over night, 2 C now, moderate hoar frost untouched where the sun hasn't reached. Sleet yesterday about 1300 heading up to Whitfield Moor that's below 1550'.

At least we agree on this. Here we get 20-40 students to make a little xmas tree project,

I tend to buy such things as cards from the RSPCA where you pay about £20 which feeds a cat for via your sponsership for a month or so.

Other charities do this sort of thing too. Our finance person brings in home made cushions and things she makes and the money goes to some local hospice. I've asked her to make me a small thing with some catnip in it, the money will go to chairty, the catnip thing made will go to a friends cat as her (the owners present).

I remember having to do that with my parent, I had to go and buy the vinyl album hand it to my parent who'd give me the money for it, then they'd wrap it.

So my parents could tell their friends what they bought me for xmas.

Keeping up with X or Y isn't always a bad thing. I didn't even bother to celebrate the new year last year, as th4e previous had been a bit crap and I wasn't expecting the new year to be any diffent.

Especially photocopying!

I watch the fireworks on telly, not sure I'll even do that this year. Working New Years Eve and New Years Day and will be up around 0600 both days. Also working Boxing Day, up about 0445 unless I travel Christmas Day. The weather will play a part in that decision.

I've outdone last year's four-for-a-pound christmas presents from the charity shop.

This year there are 10-for-a-pound DVDs, and a free calendar from the Open University, getting packaged up.

Secret Santa for a fiver; I'm not chuffing spending that much!

Owain

lol. Makes me look wildly generous

NT

FFS, do you ever stop whining? Go and live somewhere like Saudi Arabia if Christmas troubles you so much.

Don't get me wrong, in the right place at the right time some of the Xmas songs are 'ok'. Just not when repeated over and over and over ... ;-(

Cheers, T i m