It’ll soon be Christmas…
It’s that time of the year again. Today is the 343rd day of the year, and also Anna’s day, the time of the year the Scandinavians celebrate everyone named Anna – as well as start the preparations of the lutefisk consumed by households all across Scandinavia on Christmas Eve. Well, that must mean Christmas is on the way. Sure enough, Santa Clause has been nailed to the front of The Harlequin in Watford as is traditional for this time of year. Rather untraditionally this year he’s been taken down again due to high winds. It’s also not even Christmas Eve, and already I have bought Christmas presents – strange forces are at work indeed.
It’s also time to break out the Christmas decorations and take the annual trip down to Homebase where we ask the nice people to sell us something, anything that will fill Ali’s car with pine needles, and leave a treat for her feet for months to come. And that we did. Standing with tradition, I have been denied the 40ft Christmas Tree, but we do have the most amazing tree to date. It’s not fat, it’s not too small, it’s not yellow. It hasn’t been shamed into standing in the hall facing the wall with its head hung low. Our tree of 2006 isn’t bending over with the weight of the star, even.
Now all we need is the turkey, a mountain of stuffing and large quantities of chocolate … sorry … Yuletide fruits … and we’re done.
Happy holidays everyone!
