We woke reasonably early, not having given it too much of a bash last night (shared a bottle of Champagne and then had another glass each of wine while playing pool). It's a nice morning but we've been lazing around in bed reading, drinking cups of tea etc. No hurry.
We didn't swap Christmas presents this year. The Old Girl has her eyes set on some things to buy for her Wellington apartment and I bought two new pairs of Sketchers shoes the other day. Sketchers are the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn but the other ones I have look a bit like an old man's slippers - yes, you're right, like Richard going out to the shops -
- so I elected for a pair that look a bit like walking or sports shoes and another that will be ideal with jeans or chinos. I think it best that I explain this with more narrative, photographs and diagrams in a separate post. Stay tuned.
I might play some golf later if the weather holds and the wind doesn't come up.
I hope that you are all having a nice day and that not too many of you have gone to church joining hands and playing ring-a-ring-a-rosy. Just relax and enjoy the holiday.
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* "Happy Holidays" is a stupid greeting invented by the obsessional Americans who thought that saying "Merry Christmas" to all and sundry was politically incorrect. They not only worry about possibly offending a person from another religion or no religion at all by saying "Merry Christmas" but they have politicised and given it demographic significance too. For example the person most likely to insist on “Merry Christmas” would be a Republican man over 60 who lives in the Midwest; the archetypal “Happy Holidays” proponent is a young (18 to 29) female Democrat living in the Northeast.
A 2016 survey found that in response to the question, “Do you think stores and businesses should greet their customers with ‘Happy Holidays’ or ‘Seasons Greetings’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas’ out of respect for people of different faiths, or not?” 67 percent of Republicans said “No” and 66 percent of Democrats said “Yes.”
These people are nuts.
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Have a nice day. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas. Actually a clergyman told me years ago that you should say Happy Christmas because Merry indicated that you were having too much of a good time. Fortubately we have Uncle Don here to regulate how much of a good time anyone will have.
Kind of like 'abandon' (hope all ye who enter here).
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