mint Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 not sending Christmas cards but having all of January to send out cards that say meilleurs voeux?In this respect, I follow French tradition because I am never organised sufficiently for Christmas to be sending out cards in good time.So much more relaxing to get the Christmas hoohah to subside, eat up all the Christmas goodies, drink up the Christmas booze and THEN think about sending out cards, don't you think?BTW, although I say these things, I don't make a big deal about Christmas now that I have no family obligation to feed the hordes etc and we spend Christmas as quietly as possible and I do not overindulge because I can't bear the dreariness of January and February with being fat as well as everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienz Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 What an excellent tradition - I'll have to suggest it to my husband, mint. Every year he works right up until the last minute, so Christmas is very nearly a single-person effort in our house. It's just 5 of us for Christmas day, but there always seems a lot to do and takes a couple of weeks to fully recover from. Also, Mr Vivienz invariably fails to buy sufficient Christmas cards for his meagre needs and leaves me short. Matters are exacerbated by having a few 'old school' friends and aunties who send 'thank you' cards for presents, resulting in not just the pre-requisite Christmas card but also January 'thank you' cards in return! Being able to postpone the whole card thing until January (which will give Mr V more than adequate time to buy sufficient of his own cards) would make things much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 OTOH, Vivienz, you can always escape to St Jacut for Christmas where you can, of course, arrange to be in COMMUNICADO at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienz Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 My word, mint, I didn't realise that distance mind-reading was one of your talents?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Am bound to confess though that that joke about communicado isn't mine.It was a Peter Cooke or Dudley Moore one. Years old, when answerphone messages were a novelty![:-))]The message said something along the lines of: Sorry, I can't answer at the moment, I am incommunicado. When I return from communicado, I will get in touch.How innocent those jokes sound these days, not an F word within hearing[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSV Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 [quote user="mint"]How innocent those jokes sound these days, not an F word within hearing[:)][/quote]Never seen their Derek & Clive sketches then? No F word but an awful lot of C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 No, CSV, those things are not for my delicate ears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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