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Date: 21 December 2004 16:55:09
Taste for the eccentric? This should satisfy it.
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S'pose it's that time of year when the "cultural commentators" sprawl their views on the decline of Christmas as a Christian festival in the broadsheets and supplements. Reading The Times today there was one such piece based on the fact that some public buildings (librarys, schools, council offices, etc) have banned Christmas trees. Now, I've read the Bible. In fact I think I may have read all of it, though I can't be totally sure, perhaps I dozed off during Chronicles or Judges. Just that I really really can't remember the bit where Jesus is putting a fairy on the top of the tree and he says "Do this in rememberence of me", or the bit about the 4th wise man (the suspiciously blond haired blue eyed one) arriving late (huskies and sleigh not being great at all terrain travel) with snow on his boots, a tree under his arm, a bag full of Woolworths illuminating plastic tack and speaking some previously unknown Nordic tongue. So to all those commentators moaning about the end of Christian civilisation because of a few tree/decoration free zones, chill out and get a life.
Today I saw 5 stags, a buck, several dozen bunnies and an enormous murder of crows. The up-side of living in Wiltshire.