Tag: christmas
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Even when you're not remotely ready to think about Christmas yet and yet it keeps getting closer every second.
Even when the house is an absolute shambles and trying to rectify that is one step forward/one step sideways/three steps back/now put your hands on your hips and wait, what was I supposed to be tidying again?
Even when the electricity keeps yo-yoing every few minutes as the country continues to be battered by a storm.
Even when you spent most of the evening in the hospital with your injured child and then most of the night habitually getting up just to reassure yourself he's still breathing (he's fine, by the way!).
Even then, there's still the comfort of a bacon sarnie for breakfast. 😋
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Brioche bun loaded with thick cut bacon rashers, plated, on a wooden surface.
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Babies and Baubles
Each year, we encourage our two children to each select exactly one new bauble to add to our tree. The result is a decoration that's a celebration of the changing tastes and interests of our two kinds: a mismatched, discordant, crazy mixture of colours and shapes, but in which each and every item is its own story.
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Balance bikes are just better
Sean McP justifies why balance bikes are better than stabilisers (training wheels) for kids to learn to cycle, and I ponder the possibility of popping the pedals off our youngest's first bike, perhaps later this year.
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Wonder Boy
I first played Wonder Boy on an arcade machine 35 years ago, and have played on-and-off ever since. Until today, when I finally beat it for the first time.
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Mental Elf Day
Christmas Jumper Day at the kids' school. Because I'm the "embarrassing parent", I joined in for the school run too.
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Absence/Presents
Unless you're a child, I won't be buying you a Christmas present. And you shouldn't feel like you have to get me one, either.
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Three Wishes
How many times can you wish somebody a Merry Christmas before you've used up all your wishes?
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Festive Cranberry & Cinnamon Bagels
Dan shares a recipe for delicious and highly-seasonal bagels.
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These Dragon Christmas Decorations Are Tearing a Neighborhood Apart
by River Donaghey
A Louisiana woman's unusual Christmas decorations have inadvertently ignited a beef on her street—because they've apparently got her boring-ass neighbors worried that she's a member of a "demonic cult."
Author Diana Rowland just wanted to celebrate the spirit of the holiday season by, naturally, setting up a bunch of inflatable dragons on her … -
If your kid stops believing in Santa this year...
by Imgur **********************************
"In our family, we have a special way of transitioning the kids from receiving from Santa, to becoming a Santa. This way, the Santa construct is not a lie that gets discovered, but an unfolding series of good deeds and Christmas spirit.
When they are 6 or 7, whenever you see that dawning suspicion … -
Bodleian Advent Calendar
This year's digital advent calendar from the Bodleian is fabulous. And you can have one just like it.
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Love is a Gift
Phil Beastall (YouTube)
I'm not cryin, you're crying. Shut up. It's just really dusty in here. And I think somebody must have been cutting onions. -
Christmas Cheer with Bytemark
For the last eight years, Three Rings has sent Christmas cards to our customers and special friends. And this year, a special friend sent a gift back...
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Merry Christmas, MegaLoungeUK
Well, it's now Christmas here in Britain, anyway!
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Ice and Lemon
Recently, Dan read a book about an alternate-universe version of himself, authored by somebody who very-nearly shares his father's name. Once he's done being creeped out by the coincidences in it, he recommends it to you, too.