Exhausted just reading that list @Leah! There’s just the two of us oldies but even we find the run up and preparations daunting. Panic on yesterday when the tree lights finally gave up the ghost after 30 odd years service. All sold out at our local Sainsbury’s but saved by a box from the in-store Argos!
Mind you, as I play in two bands I am exhausted by all the Christmas gigs. Just one more to go - in a pub full of Saints supporters! They ask us back every year, and all is well as long as we play When the Saints go Marching in at least four times😬 They will be in a good mood after yesterday’s result.
This reminds me of the first stanza from Philip Larkin’s Vers de Societe:
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps
To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps
You’d care to join us? In a pig’s arse, friend.
Day comes to an end.
The gas fire breathes, the trees are darkly swayed.
And so Dear Warlock-Williams: I’m afraid—
The annual ritual of working out which bulb is duff and replacing it to get the set working is now a thing of the past. The replacement set cost a tenner from Argos for a string of 120 LED lights. I bet they won’t last as long!
Oh so that’s why Woolies went down the drain - they sold stuff that lasted 30 years though, to be honest, that’s not quite how I remember their merchandise
Ah yes we have done that over the years too! A couple of the lights had been “deflowered” in that manner Mostly though a large number of flowers with bulbs of the wrong non matching colour cos its was Hobsons Choice with the replacement bulbs.
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Mostly though a large number of flowers with bulbs of the wrong non matching colour cos its was Hobsons Choice with the replacement bulbs.
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