Much Randomness

[deird_lj]

1) Summer is here! As is December (coincidentally).
That being the case, I must find time, this evening, to put up all my Christmas decorations.

2) Caleb, used to adults referring to me as "Auntie Deird", has always called me "DEE!"
Now, however, he's realised that there's kind of a mini vowel shift in the middle somewhere. So I've suddenly become "Ahn Dey-ard".

3) Every time I see the little speed-bumpy thingys in between escalators at Parliament station, I get an inexplicable urge to sit on the middle bit, and slide down - speed bumps or no speed bumps.

4) Tea with milk and sugar is GOOD.

5) I'm about to have one of the busiest weeks of my year, and somewhere in there I've got to find the time to write a whole bunch of fic, AND a mini drama for a Carols service.

6) One day, in the far-off reaches of time, I will eventually get to England. Today, though, is not that day...

7) I really, really need sleep. But have a whole day of work to get through. Am substituting for sleep with tea and internet. Seems to work.

Comments

[deird1]

Since when have you sat outside to eat on Christmas day? Both sides of the family tend to have indoor food, if I remember correctly.

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

????
At Gran's we always sat outside.

And in Matt's family, in Traralgon, they sit outside (not around a table).

And, in Kew, they all sit at a long table under a pergola with vines on it and it is beauuuuuuuuutiful (plus, that's the part of the family with two chefs, so the food is also rather spectacular). We even had pressies on the lawn that year. It was sooooo nice and refined-ish.

[deird1]

Sounds pretty...


We never sat outside at Gran's, did we?

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Where were you?

There are photos, if you need confirmation!

Maybe it happened more when you were younger and there were more of us wanting to run around outside...