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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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…

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.