Christmas is a funny time of year. No matter how many warnings you receive it seems to sneak up and catch you unawares. One minute you're cursing the carols in October, the next you're fighting your way through checkouts, knowing that the thing you're buying will be half the price in a week. Yay for christmas.
There's no sign of a white christmas here, in fact, it is 'unusually warm'. I've put that expression in inverted commas because that's what everyone is saying right now. This is troubling. Clearly, it is not warm, it is very cold. Proof? No worries. Look onto the street. Your average punter is not wearing a hawaii shirt and deck shoes, overcoats, big scarves and woolly hats are the order of the day. I think then that the phrase refers to the fact that it is not cold enough to snow, which is a bit of a shame really.
Anyway, it is the season to be jolly, and I do hope that thats what everyone who reads this drivel is actually doing. I'm trying to be good, still have designs on coming home in late January to see Matthew. If nothing else, the change in temperature will be a killer.
Have arrived at work this morning to the wonderful news that Australia has won the second test. Its great. When it comes to sport, the one thing that Australia and England have in common are that we are both very cocky prior to the game. The huge difference is that the English are rubbish at any type of game at all. Cricket, rugby, soccer, don't matter, they suck. When they lose, the team are torn apart mercilessly by the media and the public, who are amazingly negative, until the next game, where they are back to their 'of course we'll win, we're english' attitude. Since I've been here they've lost a game of soccer to Croatia, a game of rugby to Argentina and a game of cricket to a team selected by John Howard, all of which have been great fun to watch.
Anyways, better run. Hope you are all super.
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3 comments:
even I watched the end of the cricket and even I thought it was immensely exciting for a game that I find "boring as batshit" an apt simile and Dan's words! Love Liz
Don't forget that IRELAND beat the Aussies at Landsdowne Road!! Notice you forgot to metion that, Sam! Hope it snows for you for Christmas, none the less.
Love, Anne
Doh on the whole warm thing. I do recall that Sharon & I paid 90 pounds eash to go to Pitlochry (in Scotland) to have a white Christmas. As we walked up the snowless steps to church on Christmas morning it was to hear the old dears behind us commenting on how there had never not been snow one these stairs for Christmas ever in their lives! Of course a sudden cold snap hit London and it snowed in the place we had just left for the first time in 50 years! Thems the breaks. Head for the Alps I say. At least it will be white there even if it doesn't snow.
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