Well the ‘bumhug’ season is nearly over, thank goodness! The last cottage guests are about to make their final liver onslaught of 2008 and no doubt so will we. All this celebration; Christmas, New Year, all the parties leading up to and then during, and for some wind down parties or burn the christmas tree bash. When is all this going on? at the most plague ridden, snotty time of the year, that’s when! If you’re not ill you soon will be; ‘Oooooh give us a kiss, it’s Christmas, you won’t catch my cold I’m past the contagious stage - Aaaaatchooo!!!!!! – Oh let me wipe that off your shirt’ Charming!!! Inevitably you will have been to someone’s house over the Christmas period and eaten something they’ve prepared whilst they were suffering from a wide range of miserable winter diseases, anxious that you should share their coughing, and phlegmy discomfort; ‘Obe doobe ab adubber mindse bie, I mabe dem byselbe’ The best of course is when virtually everyone has gone down with this mysteriously rampant illness, and we’re all lying about wrapped in sweaters, scarves and blankets in front of big roaring fires feeling sorry for ourselves, and drinking Lemsips by the gallon and chewing aspirins or paracetamol by the box, when the only one who has not had, or has recovered from this near death ailment, bounces in and says something like; ‘Come on you lazy gits, it’s a lovely, fresh and sunny day let’s go for a walk on Marloes beach’ What an absolute prat(e)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, Happy New Year!
Ellie said
Isn’t it always Christmas at Talbenny….all that good humour and a friendly welcome, roaring fires, great local food etc…? Anyway that’s what we’re hoping when we make our post Christmas, Christmas trip!!