Ah, Christmas....

[amberdreams]

We were up at 6am to get layered up for our stint volunteering at the Christmas Dip. This time Paul was on setting up and collection duties while I was on the desk for on-the-day registrations. Which turned out to be lucky, as we were in the land-side of the promenade shelter where the desks were set up and the wind direction meant we were pretty sheltered! While the poor folks on the sea-ward side were right in the path of the cold. Still froze my knees off though LOL. Sadly, being on the wrong side plus having several people turn up to take part at literally the last minute, meant we didn't see anything of the whole rushing into the North Sea thing.

However, Paul was on the prom and took a few blurry pics. I think you can still see the man on the right riding a polar bear...

Rather them than me!
The chilly looking Superman is Will, and the marshal with the mistletoe hat is his boyfriend, Al. They'd come all the way from Colchester, but they weren't the farthest flung folk taking part as we had 6 people from California and a few from Vancouver!

Meanwhile, apropos of nothing at all, here's our fannish mantlepiece before the Xmasification.

Um - confession time - these Christmas cards below have been up since last year. Mmm and in the case of the cross stitch, the year before.

From Paul's brother Tony, this always makes me laugh.

Yes, that is a grenade launcher sticking out of the Impala's window.

So, um. Don't know why I'm posting this but here it is anyway. Now I need to take a pic of all my cards tomorrow for a nice big fat thankyou post.

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[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

Brrrr! And I wouldn't go in over my knees in Honolulu! This makes me feel like such baby.

Merry, merry, merry to all.