Tag: Gifts
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Gift Wrapped.
This is a tribute. Whatever damage to our health this black COVID comedy has visited upon us, its most permanent effect has been the demise of our traditional way of shopping. Although our physical wellbeing will return, we are witnessing the final decline of the Mall, the Department Store, the High Street retailer. So, a…
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Christmas Comes but Once a Year…
… and when it comes it lasts three months. All September it lurks in the shadows, fearful, almost, to show its face. Advertising suggests delicately that if we want to avail ourselves of any pre-Christmas bargains, now is the time. Those sharpest of eye might catch a glimpse of the advertisers ‘campaign animations limbering up…
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Thank You
Dear Earthly People (Do you know I’m never confident of the correct form of address. John, a mate of mine, likes ‘Earthlings’, but I think that is impolite, somehow) Thank you very much for your good wishes on my birthday. They are misplaced, since this is not my birthday, but you’ve been doing it for…
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