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The ceiling is painted and now the Christmas tree is up and decorated with all sorts of fancy baubles - in silver and read only of course.

When I was at school, many years ago now, I used to love December. The first week of advent we lit a candle and one boy and one girl were allowed to choose a carol each from the oxford book of carols. My favorite was the Boars head - don't know why but I just liked it. the second week two boys and two girls were allowed to pick a carol each - we only usually got to week three before the end of term but we really got to know a lot of carols and I love them - I know some church representatives don't approve of singing carols but Kids love them and they might enjoy coming to church more at Christmas if they recognised some of the tunes...

As a native of that well know Scottish enclave called Lambeth I was realiably informed when I first came to Scotland to live (about 20 years ago) that catching haggis was fairly simple if you knew which remote highland mountains they frequented. You see a haggis (Haggi Caladonia) has legs slightly longer on one side than the other so it can run round the mountain anti-clockwise very fast to avoid capture but obviously they have trouble changing elevation so once you find one you set up a net and chase the haggis round the mountain and hey presto.

I was also told that there are different sub-species because the higher the elevation the more hair they need to keep warm so Haggi Caledonia - (Munrous baggus) is the rarest as it can only be found above 3000ft and is very difficult to find because it looks like a hairy ball. The more common is Haggi Caledonia - (jimmy wiggus) and is more easily spotted as it tends to develop bright orangey red hair as it matures.

Sorry for some reason I only described the Male of the species - it is the female that runs in the clock-wise direction but they are much much rarer and seldom seen because the gestation and nursing period lasts for about 3 years and regardless of sub-species they have very drab brown fur except for the one week they are "in-season" when they develop, almost instantaneously, a nordic blonde coat!

It's official - well sort of - Vaughnie won't be playing in the Ashes according to Fletcher and apparently (R5) the reason Monty was not playing was Freddie and some of the other players lobbied the selection guys against having in the team because it would spoil the balance of said team....Balance my bahookie ...stop playing stupid shots Freddie and the so called senior players, and pick a team to win not one that has your chums in it so you feel happy.

E is very tired at the moment - it turns out what had originally been described as a bad fluey type infection - here's some turbo strength anti-biotics - turns out to be pleurisy and that takes a while longer than flu to get over - hopefully by Christmas.....