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21-11-2007, 10:09 PM
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 My stockings are long and slim and unfortunately what I want in them is bags (and bags and bags) of compost for next season's sowing! I would look like I had the world's worst case of varicose veins! As a non-driver the delivery of the compost is as good a gift as I can wish for. (Next to World Peace of course)
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)      |
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21-11-2007, 10:22 PM
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Nuff Said. 
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21-11-2007, 10:25 PM
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21-11-2007, 11:48 PM
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| Would need to be the wife's stockings that I hang up and would love to find her in them, but as she'll be eight months pregnant, I find it unlikely  .Still, there's always the girlfriend  . JOKE !!!
__________________ Rat British by birth Scottish by the Grace of God Blog updated Wednesday November 13th |
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21-11-2007, 11:54 PM
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| It would have to be very large........................A barrel of Batemans XXXB If a pair a barrel of Fullers London Porter in the other. 
__________________ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields |
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22-11-2007, 10:16 AM
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| i'd like a girlfriend ........ |
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22-11-2007, 10:18 AM
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| Better hang two stockings up then!
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) Last edited by Flummery; 22-11-2007 at 10:19 AM. |
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22-11-2007, 10:48 AM
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| I have never had a stocking!!!  But when I was a kid, we used to have a pillowslip jam-packed with gifts. There was always an Annual and selection pack and loads of other exciting gifts!! ( are pillowslips smaller these days, or have I grown???  )My adult kids still have their stockings with a gift from Santa ( only if they 'admit' to still believing of course!!) When the kids have finally flown the nest, I'm going to get a pair of socks for us oldies to hang up. I suppose they should really be red and white stripes????? Any gift is a joy to me!!! |
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22-11-2007, 11:20 AM
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brings back happy memories of childhood spent at My Grandparents house in Sutton Coldfield (strangely enough) - See Hazel's location and see Hazel's lips go thin and eyes narrow as I tell her that she reminds me of my Grndmother We also had a pillowslip (haven't heard that in ages either) full of all sorts of goodies not forgetting the obligatory satsuma. Aah, happy days
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22-11-2007, 11:36 AM
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| I would like a pillow case this year so I can squeeze in Robbie Williams and Jimmy Nesbit and a load of compost! OOOhhh dirty!
__________________ Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become. |
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22-11-2007, 11:48 AM
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| GREEDY Hussey!
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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22-11-2007, 12:21 PM
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| We had a pair of ordinary socks from the drawer - so once we got sense we made sure they were the longest rather than the nicest ones!! All the fruit went into them - a banana, apple, satsuma (or 2), some years a kiwi. Beside those, some form of confectionary (never a whole selection box, but maybe a half pound box of wine gums or something similar), a book, and then (up to a certain, acceptable belief, age) whatever toys were to be had. I am the only one who is not necessarily at home for Christmas every year still, and the other 5 still get their fruit, sweets and book every Christmas morning!! And my mother still insists on putting out the mince pies, milk and carrot for Santa and the reindeers - the youngest is 23!!! |
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22-11-2007, 12:52 PM
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| Ooooh, where do I start?! George Clooney, in doctor guise (remember when ER was good?!) would be nice!! Or Jack (Matthew Fox - see below!) from Lost - (did you know he was brought up on a ranch in Wyoming?) And if he was to jump out of my stocking holding a nice selection of gardening tools, and a couple of B&Q gift vouchers, so much the better
__________________ Sarah “Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” |
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22-11-2007, 01:07 PM
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| Kate Beckinsale'd do for me. Or Liv Tyler. Or maybe Rachel de Thame to help me on the plot...
__________________ A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November http://tickers.baby-gaga.com/p/dev036pr___.png |
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22-11-2007, 01:35 PM
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__________________ Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become. |
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22-11-2007, 02:02 PM
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Only greedy girls had pillowslips - we had one of dad's socks each. Amazing what you can cram into a sock - I suspect that he ended up with one baggy sock on each of 3 pairs well into the New Year!
__________________ Hazel www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!..... |
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22-11-2007, 02:20 PM
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| Yes always the satsuma, a shiny red apple, sixpenny piece, a few humbugs, and the Christmas Annual, although how Mum and Dad managed to get the Annual into one of Dad's socks I've no idea! Like your Dad Hazel, Dad must have had some pretty baggy socks ...... I wonder if that is why he always got socks at Christmas?
__________________ ~ Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash |
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22-11-2007, 02:27 PM
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| Why am I thinking of Monty Python?
__________________ A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November http://tickers.baby-gaga.com/p/dev036pr___.png |
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22-11-2007, 02:27 PM
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| We had pillowcases - by the fire. Warmest place in the pre-central heating house. My Ma was one of 6 children so there was always a present from each aunty/uncle in there too. And a satsuma. Although we called them tangerines.
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |