"Ordinary folk" talk about “making memories”. You do all the hoopla and games so that your children can “make memories”. They also call photographs and videos “memories”.
Lower middle-class Jen Teale makes all her decorations every year out of brown paper and string. She sticks stuff onto ping pong balls with a glue gun.
Morning guys. Yesterday we were wrapping your Christmas decorations created at the “Paint your own handmade porcelain Christmas decorations” workshop at the Note Warehouse. (@martinharmanart)
People's Trust for Endangered Species @PTES: Handmade plastic-free decorations for your Christmas tree! Shop now!
Caro Stow Crat has never heard of glue guns: she gathers greenery, conifer branches and red berries in the family’s private woods and sprays them liberally with gold paint.
Samantha Upward avoids Costa – at this time of the year they play "Christmas music" about bells and frost, sung by Nat King Cole imitators.
Journalists take the opportunity to write about their own damaging drinking habits, as if asking for approval or permission.
A vicar has taken on the tradition of telling children Santa doesn't exist and leaving them all sobbing.
But @ferrispictures wins game, set and match: OMG, it's here far too early. I loathe Christmas for its disgusting commercialism. All greed and unfairness.
The sending of valentines has quite gone out of fashion, except amongst persons of the lower class. (@GirlsOwn quoting the1880s)
@MarcCorbishley asks: Is trifle essential at Christmas? (Not among the best upper sets, Marc.)
Enjoy! And Chag Sameach.
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