Where is everybody

[Ian]

Jeez guys, where you all gone this Crimbo, I'm getting DT's with nobody to chat too.

[johnbull]

They're all stuffing their faces, and getting p*ssed.

[cosworth151]

I popped on briefly, then went down to Chillicothe to spend time with my daughter, grand d aughter & their family.

Then I went to the AMVETS & followed Johnbull's advice!

[Ian]

  Hehe, great one JB, nowt wrong with that is there, was rather p!ssed up myself last night, had a couple of Absinthe shots, that'll p!ss Neil off.

[Neil.P]

Crikey Ian how did the Absinthe go down? I had to take it easy yesterday, was suffering badly from the night before.

Neil.P

[cosworth151]

Christmas Eve is the big night for that here. Most businesses have a bottle under the counter for regular customers, like the apricot brandy at the hobby shop and the Jackie D at the tobbacconist. Free drinks at the AMVETS from 5:00 to 6:00, then over to the V.F.W. for free Tom & Jerrys.

Following that, the partying gets started in earnest!

[cosworth151]

What many of us were really doing. This was always a favorite of my father.

[AJM]

They're all stuffing their faces, and getting p*ssed.

it's the done thing...isnt that what Christmas is all about! 

Next week (New Year) is the biggest holiday here in Scotland...so much so that we have an extra day off on the 2nd to recover! 

[johnbull]

Now that, in the words of the inimitable Gerrard Hoffnung we are all
suitable drunk and fed up,
we can get back to normality, which means telling everybody how grand prix racing should be done as we have been doing so excellently over the last few years.

[Alianora La Canta]

I've been on every day, but I've been on my Dad's computer and can never remember my password, which necessarily limited my views. Also, I was spending so much time dealing with familial obligations and doing the preliminaries for the online business I'm setting up in the next few days that I've only had about three hours on the internet in the last four days, including blog entry time (signing up to do a blog entry a day in December was not perhaps the best plan...)

[Ian]

Online business eh Ali, what you gonna be selling us then. Hope you had a good Christmas.

[Scott]

Yes, do tell Ali - you should run it by us so we can look for glitches and maybe get early-bird specials? 

[Alianora La Canta]

I will be selling T-shirts, hoodies and similar items of clothing, plus one or two other items. They will have designs that are either cartoons from my blog (I plan for all the ones I've drawn so far to be available at launch) or they will be cartoony drawings I've done based on memorable quotes from my blog. It will, at least initally, be based on my blog because that's what people know me from.

The back-office stuff such as deliveries and customer care will be done by The Printshop. I make a small profit on each item, but the advantage is that the costs for practically everything is embedded into the sale items. It should therefore be virtually impossible for me to make a loss from this.

I doubt there will be any initial discounting because the profit margins are quite small, but I think there is going to be at least one competition to give away a freebie

[Alianora La Canta]

I had a really nice Christmas. Quite a few good presents, spending most of Christmas with family, visiting Grandma and my aunt on Boxing Day and even getting to see my brother on Christmas Eve. Plus it was better than last year because Grandma stayed relatively well and nobody caught the norovirus...

[Dare]

When I first heard of boxing day I had no
idea what it was,I thought you boxed
people who gave you lousy or no presents