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Day 21 – Traffic Chaos Much akin to the problems with snow, the Christmas period is renown for traffic problems. This year, it seems, is no exception. If it’s not snow causing gridlock and road closures it’s everyone travelling at once to get from A to B. Traffic jams, slow moving queues and giant maggots
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Day 20 – Mad Friday Venturing into Barnsley town centre on the last Friday before Christmas is possibly the stupidest thing to do ever. Unless of course you like thronging crowds of pissed up Yorkshire people vomitting, fighting and being squeezed like sardines into the variety of bars and clubs there are in the metropolitan
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Day 19 – Nuts Nothing says Christmas more to me than nuts. I love nuts. Especially walnuts. Hazelnuts are ok, Brazil nuts are a pain in the bum to get out of their shell, peanuts make me snore and almonds…well I can take or leave almonds. But I love the nuts. Can’t get enough of
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For the next couple of weeks I am on a cruise around the Caribbean. This is a joint celebration with both my 40th birthday and Christmas falling within that time. So far I have been to Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and Dominica on the journey with more destinations to come. I keep having to remind
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Day 18 – Snow Though not entirely a Christmassy thing snow is one of those things that really irritate about the season. Well…maybe not the snow…But the British reaction to snow….that’s a different matter entirely. A case in point was last night. All this week the news on the telly and radio has been “ZOMG
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Day 17 – Birthdays Now those that profess to knowing me in a personal capacity will know that today is my birthday. Now what has this got to do with Christmas you may ask, well don’t ask me….ask the many other people that suffer the unfortunate circumstance of being born in December or during the
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Hope you’re still enjoying this series. Day 16 – Time and anticlimax A weird thing happens. I think it starts at puberty but it could develop later on in life. I’m not talking about facial hair here. So when you’re little, Christmas day feels like it goes on for a week. But somewhere in your
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Day 15 – The Fat Man in the Red Babygrow Let’s say you have children. Let’s say they tell you there’s a weird fat bloke in a red baby grow that comes to them and tells them if they are good they can have toys. They tell you he comes to their room at night
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Day 14 – books Getting a good book at Christmas was once one of the highlights of the year. People who bought me books as gifts used to put a lot of thought into buying a book. Some gems I’ve received over the years include timeless classics such as The witches handbook , haunted inns
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Day 13 – Christmas Trees When I was a kid….wait..have you noticed how most of these posts refer to moments when I was a child? Hmmm…patterns…. Yeah…as I was saying. When I was younger, every year my dad would go up the ladder into the loft and get the musty old boxes filled with decorations.
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