Bah Humbug
Dec. 20th, 2004 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanMy challenge, refusal of which is not an option, is to buy Christmas presents for:
- Sister 1 and husband (?joint);
- sister 2 and husband (ditto);
- brother and wife (do you see where I'm going here?);
- precocious 11 year old niece (this one's easy -we have the same taste in children's books);
- 9 yr old nephew;
- 7 year old nephew;
- 4 year old nephew;
- 2 year old niece;
- 1 month old nephew (shiny paper is a possibility);
- best friend;
- plus wedding present for Joff and Harry.
In the next six hours.
Ooops.
Primrose Hill first, but I fear I may need to mortgage the flat (which would require me to commit a fraud by claiming I own it) to have much success here.
Bah. Humbug.
Update: right, kids 1-3 in descending order of age, and two siblingcouples sorted. Doing well. Central London here we come.
Books bought for self: one
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Date: 2004-12-20 05:06 am (UTC)Also: to email Kirsten and tell her where she's meeting you next week. Before you disappear into the country.
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Date: 2004-12-20 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 05:23 am (UTC)I'm quite glad I only have one sibling!
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Date: 2004-12-20 06:50 am (UTC)I hear the trendy thing is giving goats for Christmas.
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Date: 2004-12-20 02:47 pm (UTC)Come to that I bet Cratchit was robbing poor old Scrooge blind for years. Justice for Scrooge!
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Date: 2004-12-20 03:38 pm (UTC)Cratchit is a far stingier person than Scrooge ever was. He's been dipping into the till for years and yet still won't spend money on his own family. Poor Tiny Tim is at death's door and Cratchit still isn't willing to spare the coin to make life better for him. It's not until poor old Scrooge comes along that Tim even gets a good dinner on Christmas day. Despite Scrooge's obviously compulsive hoarding of money he finds the strength to part with some to help Tiny Tim. His father, on the other hand, is still busy playing with his illgotten gains.
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Date: 2004-12-20 04:00 pm (UTC)Either that or it's all been salted away in gran Cayman.
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Date: 2004-12-21 02:34 pm (UTC)Small Print
Date: 2004-12-21 07:48 am (UTC)-Bunty
Re: Small Print
Date: 2004-12-21 02:35 pm (UTC)