I've been told by Madeleine that I must not abandon my traditional Christmas rant. I guess if you do something two years in a row it is a tradition. I didn't want to do one this year as I haven't been thinking about Christmas much, and it didn't seem particularly relevant to my life. I seem to have managed expectations well enough over the last couple of years so that I'm free to ignore Christmas much more this year.
Normally, I'd rail on about excessive consumption or teaching children a sense of entitlement, but I'm not really in a position to judge others given my own glass house. I might say something about the end of industrial civilization, but since Copenhagen, I think Christmas is the least of our worries.
So, I hope you enjoy your time off work and any meaning you may find in the season. Please don't steal too much from your grandchildren to provide for Christmas stuff this year. And by the way, your dog doesn't appreciate being decorated.
She might not appreciate it, but boy she looks awful cute!
ReplyDeleteShe came home from the neighbours wearing this one day. She absolutely hates the sound of the bells - so much that she barely moves while wearing it. We've used this to keep her quiet when she had a shoulder injury. Now she slinks away when we so much as open the drawer where it's kept.
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