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    Christmas used to stress me out so bad, wondering the same thing, what to get everyone, and how to afford ...
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    The same thing you're getting me. :P
 

Nov 10
2010

Posted by richard

Here we are again, November already, Christmas is coming up and I have no idea what to get for presents for the family! Silly really, because I think the nieces and nephews would be happy with anything, they’re kids, they love playing with toys and so on. The parents, brothers and sisters are more of a challenge.

The parents are a real bugger because at this age, with their own business, they can pretty much buy what they want anyway. So really it becomes a matter of finding something that’ll surprise them.

I can’t believe the year has gone around so damned quickly, it really has flown by this year.

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    ROTFL, light dusting! Too true, when you see your pics from a year or so ago! It snowed last night ...
  • macbros
    That's a light dusting you got there. Looks pretty though. One thing to look forward to when it does snow heavy most ...
 

Jan 4
2010

Posted by richard

We’re not used to this kind of cold!

After our nearly-white Christmas, we are now promised more snow. Although I love snow (it’s one of my first memories as a kid coming back from Kuwait), I have to say I don’t love the cold that comes with it. Unfortunately the weather here seems to favour ice and freezing temperatures rather than masses of snow.

Nevertheless, as you can see from the picture taken from then, we do get snow. I’ll upload some more tonight to my Flickr account. And that was thick for us, a couple of inches, so of course being Britons, it caused mayhem and brought the country to a standstill…

My feet are really beginning to feel a bit chilly right now!

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  • macbros
    Still got lots here. Come and get it. :P
  • Christina
    I was so sad about missing out on a white Christmas that I actually made plans to spend the holidays ...
 

Dec 18
2009

Posted by richard

Could it be a white Christmas for the first time up here in years? It seems pretty promising, at least if the last few days are anything to go by. It’s been snowing, hailing, sleeting, on and off, and talking with friends and my dad in Sussex, there’s been several inches down there.

The flakes right now are coming down thick, but it’s intermittent. We’ll have 5 minutes of snow, then nothing for 30 minutes, so there’s no gathering of snow as it all melts too quickly.

Anyway, crossing fingers time, let’s hope it’s all picturesque for Christmas!

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  • MrCorey
    Much of that snow that you saw in Mac's post is now rained off, believe it or not. The ...
  • MacBros
    That was all in one night too. I can't believe we got a whole winters worth of snow in one ...
 

Dec 24
2008

Posted by richard

I almost typed in ‘Shite Christmas’ there, was nearly close to missing it.

But honestly, I mean a white christmas. I haven’t seen one in um.. well actually I can’t remember one. I saw Mac’s post the other day about a bit of snow. A little bit, must be a Canadian understatement thing, as the car outside was swallowed up by a drift and the house opposite disappeared. A “little bit” over here seems almost laughable now.

So poor ‘ol Santa won’t have anywhere to park his sleigh.

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Dec 1
2008

Posted by richard

It’s coming up rapidly, I just can’t believe how quickly this year has gone!

Spending loads of money this weekend on presents, at least this year I don’t have to rush around on the day or two before Christmas!

And we have a glorious full two weeks off this year, so lots of time to do pretty much nothing!

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Dec 15
2007

Posted by richard

Well we certainly have the temperatures, because it is bloody freezing!

So here’s wishing (fervently) for a decent white christmas for once. England may be the place lambasted as the home of rain when it’s not elsewhere in the world, but when freezing winter temperatures come that doesn’t mean it gets turned to snow :( We have precious little of it. So much for the pretty Christmas cards with snow everywhere…

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Dec 9
2007

Posted by richard

It seems that the Christmas shopping season begins earlier and earlier every year doesn’t it?

I ran across this today, thought I’d put it up for those that really give a damn about when Christmas arrives, and when Santa is starting to crawl down the chimney.

Looking for payday loan?

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