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[turps]

Thank you to msktrnanny, spasticat, eglantiere and sylvaine for the cards ( sylvaine, the cover art for your card is adorable! ) and dine for the postcard. It's always great to get cheerful mail and all your messages have made me smile a lot ♥

I'm frustrated that despite sending my cards before the last posting date only the ones in Europe have got there in time. I was feeling so satisfied with myself for getting them done and sent in time, too. Stupid post-office.

This amused me yesterday. We'd been half watching some show about penguins on tv while James was getting ready to go to work. I made some throwaway comment about the birds being in peril and James seriously said that penguins weren't birds. I looked at him, because, seriously? And when I said yeah they were, he said no they weren't as they didn't have feathers but fur instead. At which point Alexa was brought into it and she was asked, are penguins birds? Yes. Do penguins have fur? No. Honestly. As he's generally an intelligent grown man I'm going to say he was having a brain blip while distracted, but even so. Penguins are birds, James!

In good news. Our new car is nearly here. Motability lease you a new one every three years and ours was due at the beginning of the month, but was delayed and has been on a slow boat from South Korea for weeks now. But it's in the country and is now being registered and fitted with the adaptations and should be with us in the next week or so. I'll miss Jaffa but I'm sure we'll love Clementine, too.

It's blowing a hoolie here and as it's the first bin collection after Christmas the estate is full of bin bags flying everywhere. I've just had to go out and rescue one of ours which looked like it was about to blow over to Lidl, so I've jammed it next to the bin and left the rest in the garden for a tip run on Monday. Apart from bringing in the bin later I intend to do nothing else today but some house stuff and catch up on some reading.

Comments

[shadowhive]

Aww no, that sucks! I hope the cards get to them. Even a late card is nice though

*giggles* aww that’s so funny!

That’s good! Hope it gets to you soon.

Oh wow! It’s crazy when it gets that windy!mmy plan for the day is not to do much either. I’m just gonna bundle up after walking the pup and do some writing

[turps]

It's frustrating because I thought this was the year all my cards would get there on time, but nope. Next time I'm going to send the lot at the beginning of December.

Things you never thought you'd ask Alexa. Do penguins have fur *g*

I hate the wind. I need to go out and bring the bin in but am procrastinating as it means hurdling a load of black bags and shoving a load of wood back behind the greenhouse as it's been blown out. But, I must get out there soon, it'll be even worse rescuing the bin in the dark.

[shadowhive]

Aww yeah, I’m surprised mine got there on time (especially yours!) since I sent them so late. I don’t usually send many though, it feels less each year.

Hee yeah! :D

Aww no, I hate it too. Once when I was out the wind was blowing so hard it was carrying me along and I worried I’d get blown away. Hope you manage to get it before it gets dark!

[eglantiere]

awww, you got it! i'm so glad :D

[turps]

I did! And such a lovely card and message, too ♥

[sylvaine]

*snerk* I once had a discussion with my mum because I said that turtles were reptiles and she thought they were invertebrates. Even intelligent people have funny gaps in their knowledge sometimes xD

[turps]

Even intelligent people have funny gaps in their knowledge sometimes xD

That's very true.

I did think I should have asked him what he thought penguins were if they weren't birds. But I was too busy laughing at them having fur *g*

[sylvaine]

Well if they have fur, clearly they must be mammals! *g* also, I forgot to say earlier - I'm glad my card arrived safely, yay!

[turps]

Your sister s very talented. Her artwork was fabulous.

And yes, obviously a mammal *g*

[frausorge]

I got your card on the 17th! It was not only on time but a whole week early.

[ETA: ok I give up on trying to code a link, but anyway, I did get and very much appreciate your card.]

I hope the new car will serve you well.

[turps]

That's good to know. I thought they were all stuck in an airport or something. Thanks for letting me know ♥

I'm sure it will :)

[frausorge]

\o/ and I mean, I did thank you on the 17th! https://turps.dreamwidth.org/1171753.html?thread=24336937#cmt24336937 I am vain enough to want credit for that :p :p <3

[turps]

You should, and will, get all the credit for that. And thanks for pointing it out, and hopefully looking the other way when I post my late reply to that comment /o\

You've cheered me up thinking the cards may have got there in time after all.

[frausorge]

Yours was in fact among the first overseas cards I got. ♥ ♥ ♥

[glitteryv]

My card to you will arrive sometime mid-winter but, hey, who doesn't like getting post, right? /o\

I'm totally side-eyeing James for saying that penguins weren't birds. XD

Yays for Clementine being so close to y'all.

[turps]

I love getting post at any time. Who says you need a specific period of time to enjoy hearing from friends.

I mean, what was he thinking? That was one heck of a brain blip.

I suspect Clementine will be here in the week after new year. Probably would have been earlier if not for the holidays. But, we're in no hurry to change cars.

[sperrywink]

Damn you, post office!! I would say they are to blame for me not sending cards yet, but it's totally lazy me. *g*

LOL penguins, James should have known better than to challenge you on PENGUINS!!.

Yay new car!!

[turps]

See, many years I've sent my cards late and wouldn't even think to blame the post office. But this time they went in time. And strangely some seem to have arrived in the US but not others, so what's going on there? I shake my fist at the post office!

Penguins have fur. I'll never get over that, and never stop teasing him about it I'm sure.

Yep, new car. New SUV for me to be terrified about learning to drive in *g*

[brandywine28]

I once dated someone who tried to convince me there's no such thing as blueberries. (They'd never seen a fresh one, apparently -- ??? -- and believed that blueberry-FLAVORED things, like popsicles or whatever, were just, like, flights of fancy on the parts of food manufacturers, based on nothing.) I feel your pain.

[turps]

Where do they get these ideas from? It really makes you wonder.

Did you prove your the point by heading out to a shop and pointing out blueberries?

[turlough]

Now I'm really curious what James thought penguins were. Some sort of seal maybe?

Hooray for almost having your new car!

I hope you'd a delightful Saturday with lots of reading!

[turps]

He must have been thinking along those line, as when we were talking he tried to support his point by saying penguins couldn't fly but they did swim. I mean, if you were an alien and first came to this planet and saw a penguin swim I could understand thinking that. But if you're not an alien, what are you thinking!?

I'm looking forward to the new car arriving, but will miss this one. It's been a good car, and I'll really miss the cheerful orange.

I did. I read loads and got caught up on a lot of stuff online, so felt nicely accomplished.

[rikes]

Omg, James!

And hey, thank you for the glittery card! ♥

[turps]

You're welcome about the card.

I still laugh when I think about James and his penguin comment. I mean, what was he thinking?!

[ephemera]

I got my sister's box in the post the day *before* the last posting date for Christmas for the first time maybe ever (I'm usually a couple of days late, and it usually makes it.) The box has vanished entirely...

[turps]

The box has vanished entirely...

That's so frustrating! It makes you wonder where these parcels actually go. I know I've sent some that have taken many weeks to go relatively short distances, but thankfully nothing has ever disappeared completely.