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I'm a jolly kinda girl and I love Chrimbo, getting pressies, wrapping them up nicely. I like baking mince pies and making loads of nice Christmassy food

What I HATE about Christmas is shopping in town for presents. There's LOADS of people, all in their own world, some of them with double pushchairs! ARGH!

It's not just the hideous crowds, it's the shops.

Christmas started in Newbury in late August! Before Halloween! it's stupid. Then there's the Christmas music from every shop. And the heat of the shops is unbearable.
It's freezing outside, so you layer on the clothes, you get in the shop and it's so hot you feel sick. Ugh.

Thank god for Amazon!!

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.

thank god for the internet

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

 Written by: jo_rhymes


some of them with double pushchairs! ARGH!



.. You were in one of those once if i'm not mistaken... so let other children enjoy xmas shopping whilst their young and enjoying it... after all xmas is all about kids and having fun..



This will be my first xmas as a dad.. i hate xmas time but im sure gonna make sure my son has a good one...

PK.

"To be an angel, one need not have wings.
In giving love there is an equal grace.
Nor need one seek the aura in the face,
As love unveils the beauty of all things."

*Francois Couperin.

PK, i dont have anything against kids! I kids, it's their inconsiderate parents that annoy me! Two kids in a double pushchair, whilst their mum is staring at some gift, oblivious to all the other customers! Grrr!

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...

When trying to get into Birmingham to liaise with HoPpers last weekend, I couldn't even get ON the train I had a reservation for, because it was packed with chavettes discussing which shade of fake tan spray to buy for their relatives. Grrrrrrrrrr!!

Apart from that, the crowds of Christmas shoppers we were singing Christmas songs for today gave us hundreds of pounds for the blind school, so there's something nice about it, too

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry pratchett

come to China, christmas isn't on here!

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi

Lazy Angel, we can both have non-christmas christmases in Asia

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...

Cheers! actually my school is going to hold a sort-of Christmas party, they want me to spin poi for them. And I'm doing lessons on Xmas next week! Going to miss hugging friends and family the most I reckon! Where are you at in Asia？

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi

I'm in Japan studying

I take it you're teaching english?

And I just did a performance at a christmas-type party this afternoon!

My mother sent me a little paper chrissy tree and some tinsel so i could put them up in my room here and feel "more at home" *melts cos my mother thinks of EVERYTHING*

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi

Yeah, the poi went down pretty well - although not as well as a 3-ball cascade!

Yeah, it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey here. snow on the mountains already and snow on the flat due any time now.

Today's forecast was -2 to 7! And back home right now they're sweltering in 40deg and fighting some of the worst bushfires in history! what a contrast!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi

for Rougie and Guy! this thread is ranting about trying to Christmas shop in town, not the dilemmas of living in Asia!

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

What gets me is that everyone knows Christmas will be coming up somewhat regularly, but leaves the shopping until the last 4 weekends, and then wonders about the crowds

Maybe initiating an "alternative Christmas" some time in September would be a good idea.

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

Birgit, I think you're right.
If i was organised, I'd sort Chrimbo shopping out in advance.
But I'm not organised, and I don't like crowds, so I'm going to moan about it

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

I don't like crowds either, but I'm better now than I used to be. I know the signs of "right, I need to get out of this shopping centre in the next 10 minutes or I'll feel the urge to either run away or scream or hit somebody"

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

 Written by: Birgit


What gets me is that everyone knows Christmas will be coming up somewhat regularly, but leaves the shopping until the last 4 weekends, and then wonders about the crowds




*sigh*

I haven`t started christmas shopping yet... got to get it ALL done next weekend...

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Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed

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The holidays just depress me...seems you can never do enough... noone is ever satisfied...I'd rather just skip it!!!

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin

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