Fun Friday – Wrapping Up The Week

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Luckily I had Elf to help and I’m not going overboard with presents this year.

I am going away tomorrow morning, time to let the blog unwind…

The worst travel weekend of the year?

Whether staying home, going away or avoiding Christmas all together, cards are probably going to be involved. Plenty of people have ceased to send them, especially with the cost of postage. But it is nice to get them. A lot of stress is involved. Are you brave enough to stick to your resolution not to send ANY or do you feel guilty when your ninety year old aunt sends you one? Have you arrived at work, your first Christmas at that job and realised everyone has brought cards and gifts in. Do you monitor incoming cards, save last year’s and make a list of the deserving. You could be ruthless and cut out people you never see or want to see again, hopefully they will stop sending as well.

Did you post your cards and parcels on time? Will you panic and take out a mortgage to buy first class stamps or hope that the recipients will blame the post office when they get cards on the third of January.

Another strange custom is giving cards to neighbours who you see anyway. Though at this time of year it’s too dark to see anybody or they are all rushing round doing Christmassy things. Actually putting cards through doors is fraught with difficulty. If you live in a country with post boxes by the road you miss the fun of venturing up neighbours’ front paths or trying to gain access to their block of flats. This is the only time you get to see what lies behind the high hedge, or peep through a front window. But the aim is to post the card and get away before the neighbour spots you, thus avoiding having to engage in conversation. When you get to the front door you wonder how the postman copes with those awful bristles that trap your hand in the letterbox. If you are really unlucky you will be inches from the door when it suddenly opens and three dogs jump on you, excited to be going out for their walk. Perhaps you can’t find the front door, or it’s a corner house and you can’t work out where the gate is let alone the front door. Then you have to find number ten down the end of the road and post a card on behalf of your elderly neighbour. You don’t know the people and nobody at that end of the road seems to have numbers on their door… Good luck with your card rounds…

Whatever you are doing, enjoy the rest of the year. Who can believe we have a quarter of a century coming soon!

28 thoughts on “Fun Friday – Wrapping Up The Week”

  8. Don’t mention cards! I am too late to post mine and delivering to my neighbours takes ages because we are so scattered. Maybe I should have got an Elf. Enjoy your festivities!

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  10. We had all our present shopping, wrapping, and posting done ages ago, and we no longer send Christmas cards. Are you going to Lincolnshire again? Wherever it is, I hope that you have a lovely Christmas, dear Janet.

    Best wishes, Pete. x

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