{"id":3938,"date":"2020-12-11T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2020-12-11T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:22:29","slug":"christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3938","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time ever we put up our lights in the apple tree at the start of December- normally we wait until schools break up. It takes some time as you unravel the lights and then have to climb the ladder several times as I thread it through. When finished it looks simple but effective. So some early light to cheer us all up is working well at the start of December. Then disaster struck! Someone who will remember nameless managed to pull the lead out of the sealed plug so it was beyond repair! So on impulse we went and brought up the last decent string of lights at B and Q. Now it was a matter of getting the original string down; climbing up and down, up and down, up and down<\/strong><\/em> for what seems to be a 100 times!!! New string is then carefully unravelled and arranged in the tree-more ladder climbing! It looks comically as you thread 500 small lights through many branches. Finally we are pleased with our efforts and we symbolically switched on-great stuff! Satisfied we turned it all off to wait for darkness, well so we thought. We didn’t notice that we managed to shear through the lead when pulling down the garage door. When we went to switch on and we baffled to discover \u00a0NO LIGHTS<\/span> <\/strong>again! Eventually we worked out what had happened. I was ready to ride off into the sunset but I was tired from my continuous ladder climbing!<\/p>\n

Finally after purchasing a connector and insulation tape plus much jiggery-pokery we managed to reconnect the lead and as I write we once again have delightful lights twinkling outside. I have to admit I couldn’t face climbing up into the tree yet again and threading through all those lights. \u00a0Feel like calling ourselves Botch It\/ Botch It<\/strong><\/span>!!!<\/p>\n

We had an enjoyable evening last night at Book Club<\/strong> <\/span>sharing a wide range of cartoons we had each chosen. I do like it when we do these different type of Book Club Evenings<\/span> <\/strong>and I am always in awe of the breadth of imagination of my fellow Bookies!<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Cartoon Quiz<\/strong> <\/em>answers<\/p>\n

a) Woodstock<\/span><\/strong> is the little yellow bird from Peanuts\u00a0 b) Bambi<\/strong><\/span> was the film and it came out in 1942\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> c) Nick Park<\/span> <\/strong>created Wallace and Gromit\u00a0\u00a0 d) Benny<\/strong> <\/span>is the blue cat from Top Cat\u00a0 e) Clifton<\/strong><\/span> is Postman Pat’s surname.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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