Merry Christmas, Everyone!
For your bemusement, let me offer what Much Better Half had to put up with by way of a present because the present wasn’t present. This sheet of paper was handed to her:
Now, how did we spend Christmas Day? Traditionally, at home, with guests. Some couldn’t make it at the last minute, sadly, but over-catering never goes amiss.
A hot day so I laid on lots of shade including the gazebo I recently repaired.
I carved the turkey, but the kids did the present hand-outery.
Then further drinks and chatting out in the open on the deck overlooking the sea.
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This is the best IOU I’ve ever witnessed! Very clever, indeed! And it appears your Christmas was spent with those you love and much fun. I can’t think of any necessary improvements. 🙂
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It was happy, indeed. And Online Buying proved its worth with the delivery, today, of the promised perfume!
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I remember my first boyfriend buying me Blue Grass perfume and lotion, but that was eons ago. 😳 Great poem, Col. Much better than old fashioned perfume. 😃
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Nope, MBH will settle for the perfume; blow the rhyme!
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😰😳
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Haha! Love it, very clever Les 🙂
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The innuendo, I take it!
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Yes! 😀
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Thank you for an informative year.
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Complaints of the Season Mister N.
Let’s hope we are around to complain about many more!
🙂
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The more betterly the bitter!
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My seasonal wishes to you are sent,
Just as yours to Better Half are scent
(or would be if not just now absent,
Not present but soon to be present).
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I did enjoy your cent’s worth giving sentience regarding absent sent scent.
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Merry Christmas !🍸🍸🙋
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Thank you — cheers!
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Haha! Nice.
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Thanks! Hope you had a great Christmas.
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Blue Grass!! Blue Grass? Are you certain that’s what she wanted?
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She loves Blue Grass — even used it when we were on honeymoon! And has recently run out of an ongoing supply.
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Wow! And I thought I’d used my perfume for a long time, around twenty years I think. Family buy others for me but they never fit the bill and I always go back to my old favourite!
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What is it?
Blue Grass introduction is given as 1989 (a lie!) or more believably 1934 or 1936, So it was around before we were born, and remains delightful and unmatched.
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Organza by Givenchy. It was a guess that I used it for twenty years, it feels that long. I’ve just looked it up and it was apparently created in 2004. I must have used it from the beginning and I use it daily. My close friend and former colleague, Alison, once said it smelled so good they should change its name to Orgazma! In our heads the name stuck and now when I’m asked what I’m wearing I have to think very carefully before I speak!
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Fourteen years is still a long time to . . . announce you’re coming . . . ? with a distinctive scent! 🙂
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Looks like you had a happy day!
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It was indeed. Family, friends, conversation, Christmas music, good eats and drinks, and PRESSIES!!!!!! — who could ask for anything more?
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😀
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Beautiful. And a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Thank you and ditto, plus wishes for the New Year thrown in free!
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Merry Christmas, ‘Col’!
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Thanks, and let me repeat mine!
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