merry festive commercialism
Christmas shopping is NOT my idea of fun: in an ideal year I start looking for ideas some time around the summer, and gradually accumulate bits and pieces over the months, thereby obviating the need for any sort of a last-minute plunge into such horrors as these.
We went up to Cribbs Causeway on Friday - first day of the hols, as we broke up a day earlier than most of the schools hereabouts - mainly so that Mrs W could go skating; but also to meet some friends for a coffee and catching up on news. This is the escalator in the John Lewis store, going from basement to second floor - a vertiginous peer down the well, and not altogether to my taste. But I was struck by the lines of decorations, hung from top to bottom on reasonably stout wire rope: not a bad idea, as one wouldn't want to be standing underneath one of this lot if it fell.
merry festive commercialism
Christmas shopping is NOT my idea of fun: in an ideal year I start looking for ideas some time around the summer, and gradually accumulate bits and pieces over the months, thereby obviating the need for any sort of a last-minute plunge into such horrors as these.
We went up to Cribbs Causeway on Friday - first day of the hols, as we broke up a day earlier than most of the schools hereabouts - mainly so that Mrs W could go skating; but also to meet some friends for a coffee and catching up on news. This is the escalator in the John Lewis store, going from basement to second floor - a vertiginous peer down the well, and not altogether to my taste. But I was struck by the lines of decorations, hung from top to bottom on reasonably stout wire rope: not a bad idea, as one wouldn't want to be standing underneath one of this lot if it fell.