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December 27, 2004
Christmas 2004
Another Christmas has come and gone. We spent it in London with friends. The pics above are from a small Christmas party we had on the 21st. We had a secret Santa gift swap where each person has to bring a gift of less than £5 in value. Each person's name is pulled out of a hat and that person has the choice of any gift at all, whether opened or unopened. If they pick a gift which someone has already chosen and opened, that person gets to choose another unopened gift and open it. This means a particularly desirable gift might change hands several times throughout the evening.
I'm always amazed at which gifts are the most sought-after at these things. In this case, it was a small book of photographs of the moon. It changed hands five or six times. I can't remember who ended up with it in the end. Sadly, there was nothing truly obscene or bizarre in the mix. Next year, perhaps.
My oddest present of the year came on Christmas morning. My crazy landlord and his cuddle-kins gave me an inflatable Scrabble board. It's huge, probably about a meter by a meter by half a meter when inflated. The "tile trays" are also inflatable and attach with Velcro to the main board. The board itself and the tiles are magnetic. If I was a rock star with a mansion and a big pool and an addiction to scrabble, it would have been the perfect gift. I can just picture myself floating in my inflatable deck chair, covered in tattoos, with a thinning mullet and a pina colada, playing scrabble with a couple of bikini-clad groupies and a 300 pound drummer named Smeagal. Ah, if only I had kept up with those piano lessons when I was a boy…
Posted by YandaMan at December 27, 2004 11:47 PM
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