Category Archives: Christmas

Walkin’ in a….

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Tommy

Despite the plethora of tweets and Facebook postings from Irish folks, and the announcement that schools are to close until Thursday, the Collison household has seen less than its fair share of snow, until today. We’ve been treated with the … Continue reading →

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Reblog – in honour of eating chocolate

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Tommy

This post, originally posted on February 19th, 2008, less than 2 months into my no-chocolate year. John took it upon himself this year to make me eat chocolate. He failed. In honour of this, and of his efforts, which were … Continue reading →

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Belated MusicSunday

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Tommy

Well, because it’s the holidays, I just lose track of the days. When you’re doing nothing but drumming and playing cards, you can’t really differentiate which is a weekend day and which is a weekday. C’est impossible! Yes, I’ve joined … Continue reading →

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And now for the lull

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Tommy

Well, Christmas is over. The next big thing we have to look forward to is the coming of the New Year. I think the days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day perhaps my favourite days all year. No one … Continue reading →

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Karting, the belated round 2

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Tommy

We are a family of precious few traditions, it has to be said. Well, tradition in the, erm, traditional sense of the word. You know, like going to midnight mass or having Grandma over for Christmas dinner, or everyone piling … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Tommy

There’s too much ritualistic, I-don’t-mean-it-but-it’s-what’s-done wishing of a Merry Christmas on blogs and Twitter I think. This isn’t one of those Merry Christmases, I assure you :) Twitter had a gift for me too: Abuse? I don’t tweet thaaat much. … Continue reading →

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The Night Before Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Tommy

I’ll come out and say it: I’m not the world’s greatest fan of poetry. I’ll read it an appreciate it but I never enjoyed the autopsies that you do in school, spending many lessons agonizing to find hidden meanings behind … Continue reading →

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Christmas presents

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Tommy

For all my talk of ‘need to be doing things all the time’, I somehow find time to procrastinate buying Christmas presents later and later each year. Maybe it’s because I don’t like them. Not the actual presents, just the … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tree

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Tommy

Yesterday, we got our Christmas Tree, all 12 feet of it. Next in the process is the star… Before John gets disgruntled all over my blog, let the record show that the star was made by him, and he utilized … Continue reading →

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Just so yiz all know…

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Tommy

Since it’s the 9th of November, I decree it fair game to now play Christmas music! I even left Dad with 2 CDs of it in the car up to Dublin this morning. That kid has an insanely high voice … Continue reading →

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