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With Christmas less than a month away.....

Guess which way I voted  ;D ;D ;D

Derekthefox :D

ooo, let me think now Derek....... ::)

Just remembered, have addresses for some A4A peeps!  ;D

Well I am not the only one anyway Emma !!!

Derekthefox :D

1st week in December then Derek  ;D :o

Seasonal bah humbug greetings to you Mr January Man  :-*

I'm not - but not for "bah humbug" reasons. Instead this year everyone will get a letter/email and card money is going to charity (I may even buy a fruit tree or something for someone in Africa). If I get my act together in time (not likely) I might send homemade christmas cards instead. (I took some pictures of holly in the snow early this year.)

Usually 2nd week Dec  other than my great nephews in Australia. What are their children to me? Is it right to call them great great nephews? .(Well we can't all be clever ;D) Have sympathy for and oldie (uneducated?) and keep answers polite. ;D ;D

Think a while back in Kitchen Garden mag, there was an article about making your own paper out of veg peelings...

I really hate to admit this (therefore I haven't posted in the pole) but the Governor sends our Christmas cards out each year.

Does this make me a Male Chauvanist Whatsit????

I can just hear you ladies lining up to take a pop at me over this admission...

Fire away  :-[....I can take it!  :-\

Derek

i am sure you are great at hoovering and ironing, derek.
it all balances out :)

will send cards sometime in the next two weeks - but i only send selectively. i also buy at the card aid shop so more money will go the charitable way. only close family and friends get cards - which keeps the list to below 20 ;)

Svea

Me....Ironing....the Governor wouldn't trust me to do the ironing...heaven forbid!

I only managed to do the washing a few times when she was in hospital having the girls...

I somehow managed to get a yellow duster in with the wash....she wasn't happy with the delicate shade of lemon her undies went... I personally thought they were quite sexy ...but who am I to comment???

Hoovering...did that once too.. didn't stop there..started to polish furniture wash down paintwork on skirtings, doors etc.... the Governor asked me if I was trying to tell her that she wasn't doing it well enough....I was banned from that moment on.

The guys on here may think I have cracked it and am having an easy time...Well I suppose I am... but I really do want to help around the house... I am just not allowed.. :'(

Derek

Being a Johnny-no-mates, I don't have that many cards to do, and mine are pics of the kids, home made.  They are doing some also, cottonwool snowmen, for immediate family.  ;D

Awww Derek, you're really not missing out on too much fun, really! Perhaps you could go on a cleaning hol somewhere? You know, a week in a hotel, where you can clean to your heart's content... ;D Still in denial bout Christmas here, have 3 more days, then will belt out Jingle Bells and go into mad frenzy.... ;D

Quote from: Derekthefox on November 28, 2005, 12:46:42
Guess which way I voted  ;D ;D ;D

Derekthefox :D

Ummmmmmm - the same way as me  ;D

No cards for me this year.  I will be sending a goat.  Last few years I have bought crap cards form poundland and donated the money I would have spent to British Epilepsy Association.  Emails this year  ......... and a goat.

Only sending cards to a select few, bought immunisations for a child instead.

Those I do send will be posted 3rd week in December

well Redclanger, it seems like the bah humbug brigade is still alive and kicking. This is very reassuring for me, as I feel I am prolonging a literary tradition, and would hate to see it fade away in a dollop of Christmas gooiness !!!  ;D

Derekthefox :D

As I have prob said before I don't actually dislike Xmas.  I hate the greed involved.  Must have two tins of sweets.  Must have two types of Xmas cake.  Must have more food than you would normally eat in 3 months.  We don't by presents for each other that cost more then £2.  Then we treat each other in the year to something that we would normally not buy ourselves as it would be considered extravagant.  I am getting my sis a pair of posh garden gloves as she is too tight to buy good ones.  She is buying me a ladies fork.  I always use the huge one and moan it's too big.  It's the commercialism that pees me off.

Baggy You will so love a ladies fork. My old neighbour (now deceased) gave me an old one and I love it.Just can't hack the heavy ones now.