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November 05, 2005
Bah Humbug!
One of the perks of keeping a blog for over a year is that on certain points during the second year you come up with a post that sounds disturbingly familiar. So you trawl through your archives and discover that you have said it all before.
No need to write anything. I lazily direct you to my apostrophe phobic post of November 5th last year.To be honest I don’t even like fireworks that much and come 5th November I’m sick to death of them anyway because they have been going on until 1:30am every night for the past 2 weeks. So why is it that everybody knows my opinion, even daring to agree with me and yet when it comes to the day I’m made to feel like the worse possible Scrooge if I so much as hint that I might give the whole firework display thing a miss this year. I’ve got Bonfire Night Celebration invitations coming out of my ears and to be honest I’d rather turn them all down and sit at home writing.
Shock horror! But what of the children? I hear you ask. Isn’t it all worth it just to see their pink cheruby cheeks light up as they write their name in the air with a sparkler? Well let it be known that last year I dragged my protesting arse round my Mum’s, abandoned my 2,000 words a day goal, only to stand cold, wet and hungry at her village display, watching my 27 year old brother and his wife ‘cooooooh’ and ‘ahhhh’ while my own daughter sat with her hands over her ears, alternating her valued opinion between ‘Too loud!’ and ‘Can we go home now?’
And no doubt the whole sorry state of affairs shall repeat itself again tonight.
Next year, Dear friends and family, I shall put my foot down. Ho Yes!
Posted by purple elephant at November 5, 2005 10:23 AM