Merry Chrimble!
As has become traditional, I’m spending the festive season in the wilds of West Cork. Limited net access, no mobile phone signal and roads made impassable by ice… couldn’t be better really.
I’m sitting here looking through the window and out across the Atlantic while beside me, my parents’ new puppy redefines “cute” with every movement. Tonight there’ll be food, drink and It’s A Wonderful Life on DVD. And at the risk of sounding dreadfully trite and obvious, I’m forced to suggest to you, dear reader, that you should join me in “enjoying the little things”.
I hope you all have a truly splendid festive season. Indulge and be indulging. Stay warm, take care, give and receive with grace and good cheer.
3 responses to "Merry Chrimble!"
December 26th, 2009 | 6:09pm by PMM
Drat! Outdone in bleak remoteness! I go up a mountain and you trump me with rural Ireland!
We only have a portable telly, and the video doesn’t work, so we’ve had to spend the evening writing the names of famous people on each other’s foreheads and trying to guess who was written there. The rest of the time we spent trying to get the marker pen off our foreheads.
December 29th, 2009 | 7:44pm by merrick
“enjoying the little things”
Is that another reference tho the semi you should be removing from your strapline?
Fnarr, etc.
January 8th, 2010 | 6:46pm by Jim Bliss
Actually Merrick, although removing the semi from my strapline was thoroughly enjoyable (I don’t know why I didn’t do it ages ago… I guess I was just fearful of the scandal), the phrase “enjoying the little things” was actually a sly reference to Zombieland which I reviewed recently. Check it out on DVD if you haven’t seen it already. So long as you view it as a live-action Itchy’n'Scratchy cartoon and don’t try to read much into it, you’ll laugh from beginning to end.
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