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Christmas must be nearly here …

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… I know this because a Ryan tradition happened today.
We went to Bluewater and split up with each of our children having their money to buy presents for various members of the family. Initially I walked around with Joe (which drew abundant looks of ‘aww cute’ from shop assistants that he paid) who knew exactly what he wanted and then did the same with Beth after we met up for a coffee.

Amazingly the news reports seem to be right. Bluewater was relatively quiet, most shops had massive sales (one with 80% off!) and the kids picked up a few bargains for brother/sister/mum/dad. While there I popped into the Apple Store and wished I had more money. (If anyone is looking to sell a macbook give us a shout!)

Tomorrow Sarah, Beth and Joe are off to watch Wind in the Willows while Tom and I are going to watch a film together and we may check out The Nativity.

Christmas Card

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For the last year or so I have been making my own cards for certain things as the cards I find in the shops seem either incredibly overpriced or tacky.

At Christmas and Easter in particular, cards seem to be either nothing to do with Christmas or they use 1970 meek and mild baby Jesus pictures, with a nice comfortable stable which smeeled sweet, which I dislike intensely!

Yesterday I spent part of the day being creative by producing this Christmas card to send to my financial supporters. I wanted to show this was no meek and mild baby, but that this was a baby that had come with a mission, the painful task of saving the world.

I was quite pleased with this result. I was even more pleased when the house’s resident artist, aka Tom, said they were cool!