Virtually Christmas
Dec. 19th, 2021 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustVirtually Christmas in the sense that we are nearly ready - I'm not boasting about this, because it's pretty late to be only "nearly" ready. But most of the cards are sent, and the last stragglers - the ones which accompamy packages - wil be ready to post tomorrow, first class, so before the last posting day. There are presents for everyone for whom we need presents, barring last minute realisations. There will be an Ocado delivery tomorrow, and vegetables to be ordered tomorrow for delivery the day after, and that's the food sorted: anything we don't have we can do without (we won't starve). durham_rambler is trying to organise another test drive, and the optician may phone with frames for me to try on: I include these things in the list of almost-readiness because while not actually seasonal, neither of them causes me to panic and declare that I don't have time! This may be an illusion, of course.
Virtually Christmas in the sense that these festivities will be mostly virtual. Eating and drinking will occur In Real Life, but apart from that:
We have not yet abandoned hope of real events immediately after - visitors to see in the New Year, ghost stories to close the holiday season, S's leftovers party... but who knows? Meanwhile a virtual Christmas is plenty to be going on with.
durham_rambler is trying to organise another test drive, and the optician may phone with frames for me to try on: I include these things in the list of almost-readiness because while not actually seasonal, neither of them causes me to panic and declare that I don't have time! This may be an illusion, of course.Virtually Christmas in the sense that these festivities will be mostly virtual. Eating and drinking will occur In Real Life, but apart from that:
- tonight is the Bears' Carol Evening - as last year, virtual but observed nonetheless as the First Day of Christmas
- Which reminds me that Gail-Nina's true love has a characteristic view of what gifts are appropriate to this season (and that asakiyume has the best advent calendar
- We will mark the solstice with the Melrose Quartet, courtesy of Live to Your Living Room
- We probably won't be organised enough to livestream the sunrise from Stinehenge the following morning - but here are the instructions, just in case!
- The return of the online pub quiz that evening should be a chance to catch up with some semi-detached team members.
We have not yet abandoned hope of real events immediately after - visitors to see in the New Year, ghost stories to close the holiday season, S's leftovers party... but who knows? Meanwhile a virtual Christmas is plenty to be going on with.
