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Christmas is here!!
It hasn't really felt like Christmas untill tonight. I went to pick up Demanding Ginger Cake from football practice (yes the ginger cake pickneys have tracked me down and moved back in despite my attempts to escape them), and there it was. The eighth wonder. It was huge and I am only sorry that I did not have my digital camera with me and the battery on my phone was dead. I think it was a house but I cannot be sure as it was covered in what can only be described as tack. In most recent years, Mrs. McMuffin, Ms. Victorian Sponge and I would drive around looking at the lights and things people would put on the outside of their houses to celebrate Christmas not because we thought they were beautiful but because you are drawn to them and you can do nothing but stare at them in wonder. However, this sight outshines anything I have seen before and is sure to cause an accident before the week is out, or there will be some sort of electrical disaster and the whole lot will burn down. If not and it is still there next week, I will take a picture and post it as I feel I should not be selfish but share this newly discovered wonder with the world. Is it just me or is this obsession with covering your home with lights for Christmas bonkers?
November 30, 2004 | Permalink
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It is bonkers, but a thing of joy also. When shall we do our annual pilgrimage to view the lights?
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | Nov 30, 2004 11:21:41 PM
I've already seen my earliest Christmas lights in suburban Amsterdam, back in the second week of October in a Surinamse neighbourhood. It's the earliest I've seen yet, in any country. I'm resisting the temptation to put up our one illuminated star until well into Advent, or at least until student pickney comes home from the UK for Christmas, to get his laundry done, to tap me for more money, and to be fed properly for the first time since summer. *sigh* When will he ever graduate?
Posted by: Republic of Palau | Dec 1, 2004 12:03:34 PM
