Let’s start off with the
‘bad’! I’ve had some awful presents over the years like for the ‘secret santa’
many years ago I was given ‘The Bunny Book of Suicides’ which I found
incredibly distasteful. Why that person thought it was something I would like,
I have no idea!
Then there was the tacky
orange mobile phone case (I didn’t have a mobile phone then!) or the bottle
opener (which was clearly a free gift for subscribing to a magazine!).
I was an awful child –
one year (I was about 13) I badgered my parents to get me a briefcase for
Christmas because it was the in-thing – all the other girls in school carried
their school books in a briefcase. However, I failed to tell them that it was a
PARTICULAR type of briefcase (I wasn’t aware there were others!) and, of
course, I didn’t get the one I wanted. To this day I can feel my
disappointment! LOL
A few years later
(actually this was a birthday pressie) I got a calculator – TOO LATE! My
parents refused to buy one for me while I was still at school as they wanted me
to use my brain. I thought it was useless once my exams were finished. (I was
so horrible!)
I am easy to buy for –
really! You can buy me a 50p calendar, as long as it has rabbits on it (one
that are clearly alive and not deceased!)
Now for the ‘ugly’
(apart from the orange mobile phone case!). One year I was given my own record
player that fitted together like a briefcase – you took the speakers off and
placed them at the side, then when you wanted to move it, the speakers fitted on
top and you carried it via the handle at the top….. which, unfortunately, came
away in my hand and the record player, speakers and all crashed to the ground!
I was horrified. We did get the shop to replace it but it spoilt Christmas for
me that year. L
‘Good’ presents have
included the ‘Hamster book of English history’ – this is doubly good because I
had hamsters then AND I love history. J
I can still picture my
first adult bike semi-wrapped up propped against the wall behind the Christmas
tree.
One year aged about 12 I
got a LOT of presents and (maybe my parents influenced my thinking) I was
convinced I would not get many presents the next year since I had so many the
year before and was delighted that I got so many when I thought I wasn’t going
to get any. I can still remember being elated.
Last year I had some
gorgeous jet earrings from a friend who knew I had a previous pair that had
been stolen a few years’ earlier.
And I bought my rabbit ‘Holly’
a few days before Christmas three years ago (hence her name) as my old rabbit
(Lucy) died a week before Christmas. So that Christmas was bittersweet but
Holly may be the naughtiest rabbit I’ve ever had, but she is the most loving. J
Happy Christmas
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