Christmas trials

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Date: 24 December 2005 10:25:12

A lot of people have trials and tribulations at Christmas time and the yay family is no exception. For a start, the m on my keyboard is being quite temporamental and I have to pay very close attention or I will begin telling you about what's happening with y faily at Christas.

But anyway. One of the traditions for Christmas at the yay house are the Christmas pigs. They look like this:

They belong to my grandmother and have been present on every Christmas lunch table since whenever she got them. We're talking a long time.

Last year they were entrusted to our house as Christmas lunch was to be held here instead of at the grandparents' place. Unfortunately during the week prior to Christmas, one of the pigs lost a leg. This was discovered the night before Christmas when I was loading the pigs up with liquorice allsorts. As a stop gap measure to see us through the festive season, I made the pig a prosthesis out of a jube and some toothpicks. We then tried to keep the peglegpig out of sight of the grandmother at lunch the next day. Unfortunately our shameful secret was discovered. There is now a sticker on the bottom of the pig with all four original legs with our uncle's name on it. Our family will be inheriting the peglegpig when the time comes. Oh the shame!

Anyway, this year the peglegpig has a lovely new leg made of pencil which looks like this:

So that's cool. BUT tonight while loading the pig up I made a terrible discovery! The toothpicks we bought this year are TOO BIG for the holes on the pig! OH NO!!

Eventually I found out that if you stick the pointy end of the toothpick into the hole on the pig then it fits but this does mean that you have to ram the blunt end into the liquorice allsort with a lot of force and sometimes the force required to get the toothpick into the allsort is more than the toothpick can handle and it snaps in two.

But still, things were tense there for a while.