My mother is 82 and a wonderful woman, God I love her but I have had some truly shit Christmas presents off of her over the years.
I admit I do not make it easy for anyone, as I am not into the receiving of gifts for myself and I much prefer to give (there may be some amateur phsycoanalaysts on CL to help me with that one?).
But todays present was a topper, a selection box of cream crackers and a slab of room temperature Cathedral City mature cheddar!
The woman I was dating for a bit got me this. I've posted on here about this before, I have a longstanding fascination with the JFK Assassination.
This is the "Life" magazine from after the Warren Report was released. It contains an article by Gerald Ford (then Congressman and member of the Commission) that clearly shows how the Warren Commission came to an erroneous conclusion. From the caption, "Caused the front part of his skull to explode FORWARD."
It would be another 10+ years before the public saw the Z film. But what we now know, and what the Commission was (I believe) intentionally misleading about, is that Kennedy's head was blown BACK AND TO THE LEFT.
In short, this article, which is 15 pages to the Warren Reports 20-odd volumes, played a huge role in the PR aspect of the cover-up.
I know it's proper nerdy, but it's an incredible piece of Assassination lore, and it's an article I've heard referenced multiple times.
Got some socks from my kids, a bottle of famous grouse from my parents (over to the whisky thread go I!) And some money... I'm only 39 and fully employed after all.
That is actually it. Got some concert tickets for the summer as a joint present.
Kids having a great time, about to go to the park on their new bikes, so will probably end up with some sort of accident
Well pleased with these coasters that were got for me from a stall in the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.
There’s a stall at Greenwich market that sell coasters like these. Haven’t seen these designs though, love the bottom left one, this was my first season.
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I admit I do not make it easy for anyone, as I am not into the receiving of gifts for myself and I much prefer to give (there may be some amateur phsycoanalaysts on CL to help me with that one?).
But todays present was a topper, a selection box of cream crackers and a slab of room temperature Cathedral City mature cheddar!
I know it's proper nerdy, but it's an incredible piece of Assassination lore, and it's an article I've heard referenced multiple times.
Worst: I have eight new pairs of socks. Eight.
I'll let you know at the end of the season if it was the best or the worst present.