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Just had my 4th<\/sup> vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could go on about how much I don\u2019t like the ritual of Christmas but you have all heard it before and I get quite bored of myself. I love a bunch of people who love it and so I love it too. The end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was very pleased to present my family (Xmas) present (see above) –  Btw I revel in the word Xmas \u2013 it should be universally adopted as a suitably debunking nomenclature for the pomposity of the word \u2018Christmas\u2019 only superseded  by the showy offy ness of \u2018Good Friday\u2019 \u2013 good for who one asks? Certainly not for our hero. Anyway sadly the family did not reward me with the sort of acclaim  that I felt my \u2018David\u2019 deserved. It took me ages, not necessarily a qualification for great art but it did. It went wrong several times but once I had figured how to get all the characters to look startled I genuinely  thought it a work of some genius and thus the tepid applause that greeted its unveiling \u2013 well it just ruined my Xmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had all four of our lovelies in shifts and as long as no one said the C word – yep crackers \u2013 I must say it was a real delight. They are all very nice people, they all love Vinnie which is an entry pass to my heart. Bobby pissed on me. Lisa appeared on Telly in a series of ultra high energy \u00a0micromoments for Sun Bingo that I will compile in a later blog. My presepio (nativity scene] electric light fell down and broke the donkeys ear. Maria and I went to bed at 10 every night after an indigestible bucket of xmas telly (We are that much fun). Av nailed a short story about a Christmas vegetable. \u00a0Maria\u2019s foot is still dodgy so the traditional Boxing Day walk was abandoned \u2013 ohhhh noooo! Someone cleaned Mitch\u2019s bum cos he can\u2019t reach it being so fat. Geo and Art jammed rather brilliantly on piano and guitar. A&G bought me me the biggest ever book on Jazz theory \u00a0\u2013 so I have got that sorted now \u2013 roll on ‘Ronnies.’ Art then showed me some cunning shortcuts on the bass and this combo of theory and practice has reawakened my enthusiasm for playing after a two year lull. I am very pleased about that. Got a very cool calendar with a series of black and white photos of moments and family- one pic (below) in particular shows Av looking like a supermodel and me looking very very \u2018Bexley\u2019 (only my sisters will understand that reference) or if you have seen it Ricky Gervais as ‘Derek.’ \u00a0Gifted Nonna a very cool incense waterfall thing that she pretended to like but couldn\u2019t see so I nicked it back for myself. I wrote two food orientated stories for the Mogford prize that I enter and fail every year. Submitted three entries in the end because I missed the deadline for \u2018Shrewdini\u2019 last year. \u00a345 wasted but who cares! I worked up until Christmas Eve and started again the day after Boxing Day. I prefer to get stuff done rather than have it looming ahead so I am glad to say most of my uni marking is done and it\u2019s not even the New Year. Good for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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