Memes for a Monday

So here’s some Christmasy stuff – yes I know it’s still only Adventtide and we should be turning to meditation and preparation but again my blog my rules!

So let’s get the COVID related things out of the way first:

I’m not exactly adverse to the next bit of lockdown initiative:

Sometimes it not so much a “generation gap” as a chasm!

I just wish Santa would get me a copy editor and if he should happen to be young, blond and well-built I wouldn’t argue with that either!

And as usual a bit of musical humour:

Would that my iPhone knew the story of Hanukkah – last time I was at ER it was at 20% one minute and in the red and dying when I went to call Laurent 10 minutes later. Need the Miracle of the Batteries here folks!

And the usual a religious post, keeping in mind the “reason for the season”.

If only that ‘s all that Nora would eat!

The word for December 14^th is:
Exchange /iksˈCHānj/: [^1. noun ^2. verb]
^1.1 An act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same type or value) in return.
^1.2 A visit or visits in which two people or groups from different countries stay with each other or do each other’s jobs.
^1.3 A short conversation; an argument.
^2. To give something and receive something of the same kind in return.Late Middle English: from Old French eschange (noun), eschangier (verb), based on changer (see change). The spelling was influenced by Latin ex- ‘out, utterly’.
Oh so the idea behind a cookie exchange is that you give me cookies and I give you cookies. Why don’t we just keep our own cookies?