Preparing for Christmas

Ordered some chocolates for stocking fillers (please lord give me the strength to get the original chocolate into the stockings on the 24th) plus crackers n napkins X2

It will be interesting to see if the mini table crackers make it through airport security, Mr SSOAP pointed out the snaps have gunpowder on them which I confess I hadn't considered.

Only one airline allows crackers in hand luggage (from Bristol anyway) and fortuitously that's who I booked with. Wonder if airport security will know this? 😬
 
TastyReuben said:
MrsT was out on today, leaving me on my own, and she even gave me permission to put the lights on the tree.

We’ve been together long enough for me to know that, “If you’re looking for something to do while I’m gone (!), why don’t you put the lights on tree?” translates to, “Make a laughable attempt at stringing the lights, which I’ll relentlessly belittle when I get home, pull them all down, and completely redo, negating your more than two hours of incompetent effort!” :laugh: 🫤
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I was actually very good at decorating the tree, and the house. Hey, that four year art degree was good for something. I just hated doing it... or to be more exact, taking all that 💩 down after Christmas.

CD
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It will be interesting to see if the mini table crackers make it through airport security, Mr SSOAP pointed out the snaps have gunpowder on them which I confess I hadn't considered.
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Okay, the gunpowder on crackers thing is a bit confusing, but give it a go. Getting stopped by Airport Security for testing positive for explosives is an experience I recommend to all my friends. The best forty something minutes of my life!

CD
 
caseydog said:
Okay, the gunpowder on crackers thing is a bit confusing, but give it a go. Getting stopped by Airport Security for testing positive for explosives is an experience I recommend to all my friends. The best forty something minutes of my life!

CD
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I've copied the airport webpage stating you can take two sealed boxes of crackers but no party poppers (fortunate as I hate the things) and hopefully that'll be enough.
I'm going to seal them in a plastic bag now and hope thats enough to stop any hand swipes causing a code red 😆
 
caseydog said:
I was actually very good at decorating the tree
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So am I. Lights are up and it looks pretty much like it did before. I’m always the one who places the ornaments, too - as she goes behind me and moves them a quarter-inch one way or the other. :laugh:

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That metal tree ring thing…she came back from Walmart with that. I must admit, I like it.
 
caseydog said:
Okay, the gunpowder on crackers thing is a bit confusing, but give it a go.
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In case you’re interpreting “crackers” as something to put cheese on, I think SSOAP means Christmas crackers:

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British Corner Shop

Two people pull the ends, they go bang, and there’s a paper party hat, a bad party joke, and a little trinket inside. They’re fun.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I've copied the airport webpage stating you can take two sealed boxes of crackers but no party poppers (fortunate as I hate the things) and hopefully that'll be enough.
I'm going to seal them in a plastic bag now and hope thats enough to stop any hand swipes causing a code red 😆
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Okay, I got completely confused. I thought that the "table crackers," you were talking about was food, as in the little wafer like things you put cheese on. I did a web search, and found out what British table crackers are. Why would you expect those to get on an airplane? You'd probably get detained and go through a cavity search if you tried to take those through TSA in the US. :eek:

Once again, we are two nations separated by a common language. :laugh:

CD
 
caseydog said:
Okay, I got completely confused. I thought that the "table crackers," you were talking about was food, as in the little wafer like things you put cheese on. I did a web search, and found out what British table crackers are. Why would you expect those to get on an airplane? You'd probably get detained and go through a cavity search if you tried to take those through TSA in the US. :eek:

Once again, we are two nations separated by a common language. :laugh:

CD
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I expect to because the airline says I can, they are permitted in their own rules.

We have some strange exemptions for things that are seen as niceties. Like table crackers or knitting needles and embroidery scissors or snips, they even wave their usually really very uptight cabin bag dimensions for wedding dresses.

But don’t forget to bring the death and cremation certs for those ashes, that’s human remains don’t you know 😂

Or dare to wear a pair of shoes above the ankle or forget to put a lipstick a clear plastic bag well that could be squeaky bum time 😂
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Should I?

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I don't know, is it windy where you live? 😬
Any attempt to put things in the garden here generally see's them in a field half a mile down the road 😂
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Should I?

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Oh yes, definitely. Order it NOW, and get free delivery. Take lots of pictures... and video! We want to see this!!!

CD
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Should I?

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Even I would say no.

I generally don’t like objects in the yard. Lights, yes. The more the better. But not inflatables or other big things like that.

One year, MrsT came home with a gold-spray-painted animatronic wire-sculpted reindeer family. Mom and Baby were fixed, but Papa’s head would occasionally move from side to side, like he was grazing.

It was an eyesore.

I apparently wasn’t the only one who thought so, because after walking past it a few dozen times with nary an acknowledgement, one morning, Kate the dog went out on her first run round the yard of the day, was sauntering back in, passed the display, Daddy Deer happily fake-munching the brown grass, stopped, turned, then jumped on him, wrapping her lanky Setter arms in a headlock, and didn’t stop until he was in a few pieces, and Mom and Baby upended as well.

Then she trotted back in, had a drink, climbed into her chair, and went to sleep.

:laugh:
 
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