35. My Answers...
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Me and Santa December 1976 |
Christmas edition of getting to know your friends my answers:
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1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Paper- half the fun is the unwrapping.
2. Real tree or artificial?
Both- real outside, optic fibres inside.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Dec 6th (St Nicholas) or 8th (The Immaculate Conception- national
holiday here) or 13th Santa Lucia, Patron Saint of Musicians) any day
after that means something is greatly amiss.
4. When do you take the tree down?
7th Jan which is the day after the Epiphany ending all Feasts till the
carnival on Shrove Tuesday.
5. Do you like eggnog?
No, Alcoholics are wasted on me.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
Typewriter- from myself- it was a manual Olivetti and cost 10 shillings
one Christmas in the early 60s. I bought it with the money I earned
running errands on a Saturday for the retired headmaster of our
school. Of course I knew I was going to be a writer even at the age of
twelve.
Yes
8. Hardest person to buy for?
No one because we don’t buy special presents at Christmas. Father
Christmas comes down the chimney here on December 6th, the day of
St Nicholas.
9. Easiest person to buy for?
The same answer as above, the problem does not apply.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
cake), chocolates or a bunch of flowers- Not that’s it’s not a bad idea to
get a year’s supply of bath cubes, as I did in Britain… two ways of
expressing a custom- both of which are entirely valid- I think.
Email if they have one, mail otherwise but only abroad- We don’t send
cards locally. Why do you think Italians spend more on mobile phones
than any other nation in the world- because they talk- they don’t write.
All of them- once- I love Christmas
I don’t exactly heat up the left overs of the Sunday dinner but I don’t
shop specially for Christmas…
I usually gave my presents away since people bought me quite
inappropriate things… I once ended up with a black cat in my Brixton
bed-sit! No, I wasn’t a guest at her Majesty’s Prison- the one in
Brixton… it’s just that I seemed to have always got a job in schools in
the vicinity of a prison (see entry No. 4)
inappropriate things… I once ended up with a black cat in my Brixton
bed-sit! No, I wasn’t a guest at her Majesty’s Prison- the one in
Brixton… it’s just that I seemed to have always got a job in schools in
the vicinity of a prison (see entry No. 4)
Anything nice, provided it doesn’t take longer than half an hour to eat-
sitting down for a three or four hour dinner as they do over here
simply drives me bananas.
Any for outside… depends what I haven’t smashed up the year before.
As I’m not a good electrician, I don’t use lights inside but optic fibres
which are coloured.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
here and I miss that.
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Stay at home, preferably alone to enjoy my half hour dinner with my
three dogs and not precise number of cats.
Only Rudolph because of the song: “Rudolph the red nose Reindeer…”
Besides I don’t believe Santa comes across the sky with Reindeers-
that’s an invention from Lapland…
Nothing- optic fibres now, but in the old days, I simply had to have
both…
When I get them as people give cakes, flowers, or chocolates as
presents.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
People who don’t like Christmas and are not able to find anything
enchanting about it.
Everything- Midnight Mass, greetings, the street lights, meeting people
in coffee bars, carols- savouring the atmosphere of a little bit more
goodness in the nature of mankind.
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