;)

They drink white wine in the sun! And see their granddad and mum!

My Uncle, Aunt & cousin are too old for the beach now, but they used to do it when they were younger. Well I mean Jimmy and Glenys can't be arsed and Hannah is too cool to be making a big deal of Chrimbo with the 'rents.

Jim always phones Christmas Day, speaks to all of us. It used to be an even longer call. It's our second Christmas without Grandad but somehow, with him gone, it makes losing Auntie Alice, and even Nanny seem so much more significant. We are all there is.

Sadness.

It's vain to wish I had settled and carried on my own traditions (we had started them after all) because I was unhappy and I was making him unhappy. And I have almost no regrets about leaving him. But the times we shared were precious and our four Christmases, surrounded by friends, were wonderful. I worked hard to make sure it was so and I was rewarded. But then that's why I agreed to marry him - the lifestyle. It wasn't money - I earned more than him. It was security, community and safety.

Shit.

S'okay Sundae Woman.

The man I sometimes wish I hadn't let go of (bachelor number one) bought me a beautiful leather coat for Christmas one year...and it's funny, but it fit HIM perfectly. Was a bit too large for me. Isn't that a clue to something else? Whenever I feel like I 'shoulda/coulda/woulda' stayed with him I think of his controlling behavior and his incredible selfishness. He was a white-hot blonde Leo. The only blonde and the only Leo I ever dated. Gold? He shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond....well,now I'm just being silly!


I honor the seasons. I suspect you do, too. That's a tradition, girlie. A good one, too.

You're a ruby, yes? July, Yes? Crab? or are you June? I've forgotten! Please let me know.

I'm cancer. I'll suck the marrow from your bones.
Sneaked out on the 1st of July. Late. Been catching up ever since.

I respect your beliefs because I love you, but I do have to say I think astrology is a pile of shit. But you're right that I honour the seasons in my own way. My real traditions revolve around them without being tied to anything organised.

Philip Larkin would have his religion based on water. Water's too cold for me. I'll take squirells I think. Hot blood in a muff.

Still, do you have a ruby necklace going spare...?

yeah, I looked up your stats and you ARE a ruby.
Remember Ruby Lennox - she was a precious jewel, a drop of blood.

eta: and you're a water sign. We gets along, we do.

eagainta: what's Philip Larkin doing worshiping water? I thought he only worshiped himself.

No. You'll serve your LOVERS bones in brine.

Me, too.

It's our heritage.

Not that I know of, but it's possible. Most of the family seems to have the travel bug. Who knows. :)

We put up fake trees over here and some spray their windows with fake frost etc. Blow up snowmen and santas and heaps of christmas light displays just like everywhere else I guess. The only difference is that after lunch we get the slip and slide out for the kids instead of hot chocolate by the fire.

[quote=Sundae;842609]Hello again there nowhere man!

Hi there Sundae !!
Just popped in to see what condition that the Cellar was in ......

well, just so long as your girlfriend isn't passed out on the floor you should be ok (Mama told me not to come!)

:lol:

This deserved much more attention. :p:

I appreciate your attention. I can always count on you, albeit only to ten.