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# My part of the gift was
Ahh. Boxing Day Eve. It’s my favourite day-before-a-cricket-match-starts of the year. I prepare for this day for weeks. I purchase bribes for the family to make them go away so I can watch the cricket. I roast chicken and pork. I make salad – garden andpotato. I made brandy-soaked cake and pudding. I purchase vast quantities of vile foodstuffs such as prawn and ham for D. I do this both so that I can fill up on real food so that I can subsist on chips and nuts while the cricket is on, and so that D will be overfed and thus unable to interrupt the cricket.
Note. Yes, I made it all. Give D a mixer and she’ll only hurt herself.
What gifts did I get? Well, Mum and Dad bought us – more or less – an outdoor set so that D can watch me using the BBQ – seriously, she’d hurt herself. My part of the gift was putting it together. Outside. While it is forty degrees. Then on the way home for purchasing this gift, D spotted a sign advertising cheap frangipanis, so it is almost like Mum and Dad bought us one of those as well. My part of the gift was planting them in the garden. Did I mention that it is forty degrees today? I like it when it is hot. Perhaps not actually being in the blazing sunlight doing physical labour though. tWM got an iPod. My part of the gift was that now I only have to hear the lyrics of Hilary Duff songs. Except it is tWM singing them, and I use the term "singing" with some caution. On the other hand, it meant I finally had to purchase a USB 2.0 card – no, SW, it seems my computer is the only one sold in the last twelve months without USB 2.0 slots. I then got to install this card after dragging the computer out. By the way, it is forty degrees.
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# We trundled up to New Jersey
It was a warm 3 degrees. Which I was happy about, it is usually below freezing this time of year.
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# Re: My part of the gift was
I object!!
It wasn't 40C. The rest is pretty accurate.-
# Re: My part of the gift was
I think 38 is close enough to be forgiven as artistic lisence :p
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