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    midnight lullaby…

    And that’s another one out of the way! I am taking a mini break from the ceremonial undressing of Mini Tree, given that he will be saying au revoir in a few days and returning to recuperate in his usual outdoor home for the next eleven months before returning for Christmas 2012 refreshed, invigorated and a bit bigger. This is…

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    i don’t want a lot for christmas…

    And after a rip-roaring week in That London, there surely isn’t enough fun left in the world for me have any more without using up some of somebody else’s allocation, which would be not only appallingly rude, but terribly selfish. I have luxuriated snugly in my beautiful hotel room complete with the Best View Ever (until next time, at least),…

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    o christmas tree…

    Well, Tree has arrived! Mini-Tree, as it turns out. Shortly after noon and in a large and promising-looking cardboard box, only for me to discover upon gently wriggling it out by the netting that it was, er, vertically challenged and standing even shorter than me (and that, make no mistake, is short in Christmas tree terms). Since there was little…