Crimble is coming, decs are appearing and maybe some snow this year?

30 November

Twenty five days to Crimble Day, just in case you hadn’t realised it. Well, I was driving home one day last week and saw a Christmas tree lit up in the front room of a house on in our street. You could hardly miss it really. Yesterday we went into town on had a totter about with our walkers. We called into the Anker on the way home and by the time we left it was full dark outside. As we drove home along Shanklin Drive, house after house was lit up link Blackpool used to be. The house opposite us is done up in flashing blue and white lights, it won’t be long before the family next door does something similar.

Is this a case of bah-humbug on my part you might think? Well, no, it isn’t. We will be putting up some decorations later in December. Last year we had a large flashing multi-colour start in the bedroom window on the front and another one in the living room window at the back. Our tree and stars are handy to get to go up at the sometime. The thing is, putting up the decorations too early makes the session far too long to my mind. My parents would put up theirs 14 days before the 25^th and take them down 14 days after; a 29 day holiday session seem about right to us. But even so, I’m ready for them all to come down on Boxing Day; they all look tired and drab after the 25^th to me.

Along with all the fun and anticipation, is the hope of a white Christmas. Some places are lucky and get one most years. I suppose it’s not something they think about really. Here in the UK we don’t. In fact, here I am at 66 years old and I can’t remember ever seeing one. The nearest we got to having one was in 1962 I think it was.

Every Boxing Day we visited Uncle Bill Aunty Eva in Bed’th. Uncle Bill collect us in his car and always took us home after. OK, fine; except that on that year it started snowing in the afternoon, and it didn’t stop for days after. We got home just in time cos our village was more or less cut off from the 27th for around a week. The snow and ice stuck around for near on four months that year. We were happy that when it was finally gone.

As things stand right now, it’s far too mild for snow; as for looking ahead, half the time out forecasters only hit the target around 50% of the time on a daily basis. How they can hope to forecast a month in advance I don’t know. It’s just a case of wait and see again.

I’ve actually got snow photo too … 

This is Sally-pup, our golden bitzer when I took her out on her morning walk. This is an old image taken on a Minolta 404si on slide film. It’s not the best shot of Sally I have, maybe I’ll post a better one tomorrow.

Funny time …

A wife was sitting peacefully in her cozy armchair sewing her husband’s socks. Her husband came in to the room and glanced at what she was doing, and started badgering, “HONEY be more careful! PLEASE WATCH WHAT YOU ARE DOING! You don’t wan’t to poke YOUR finger! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU! Don’t look up when YOUR’E SEWING! There you go now slow and steady, nice even stitches. The wife puts down the needle and thread, looks up at her husband, and says, “What the hell is wrong with you? Do you know how many times I’ve sewn socks before?! “EXACTLY THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET AT”, hollered the husband, “DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE DRIVEN A CAR BEFORE!?