damppanties
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Have a merry Christmas and wonderful New Year, Og.Every year we send and get Christmas Cards. We're always late because my wife's birthday is on the 15th December and she doesn't like anything 'Christmas' until after her birthday.
Every year we send some to people who don't send us one.
Every year we get one or two from people from whom we don't expect one.
This year one of my cousins died. Of course we sent a message of condolence to her daughter (and her long-divorced husband with whom she was still in touch). I hadn't seen that cousin for 30 years and had never met her daughter.
Yesterday we had a Christmas Card from the daughter who wrote it from herself, her son and her father.
Panic. We didn't have her address. We didn't even know she had a son.
But my sister in law thought that the daughter was living in her mother's old house and we did have that address. She and my brother had also received a Christmas Card from the daughter. But their Christmas Card had an unreadable postmark so they couldn't be sure where the daughter was living. Our card's envelope had a clear postmark so both of us are sending Christmas Cards back.
They'll arrive late.
Years ago we used to send and receive several hundred Christmas Cards. Now we send and receive several dozen personalised emails and about fifty cards.
But we still dislike the generic email or annual round-robin letter enclosed with the card. Those that are personalised are useful and show some thought. The ones that are sent in identical words to relations, friends and acquaintances seem patronising.
Do we need to know that little Johnny is being a sheep in the Nativity play when we've never met little Johnny?
What do you think about Christmas Greetings?
Oops! I nearly forgot. Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of you, whether I know you, or you know me, or not... Whichever. Just have a good time.