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Monday, December 6. 2021

Christmas, Prada handbags, and Haggis for breakfast


Last time we checked (I do not know how we did it), our readership was 60/40% men/women. Also, but not relevant to the topic, our average age of readership was 45. I have no idea about how to get such stats now and it doesn't matter.


Let's say you are a guy, and you know your wife "needs" a Prada bag.  Get her one. She can exchange it if she doesn't like it. Ha - reader reminds me that they are free in San Francisco. Cool.


Readers know from past postings that we prefer tickets and trips for presents (with the very rare exceptions of my birthday car and her birthday boat - no more of that is likely cuz her new bedroom fireplace is last on that list). Opening presents is mainly for kids except for diamonds and gold.


One thing anybody might like as a present is a hiking trip. Montana is great, so is Sedona or the Dolomites. Or just the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Backroads has tons of good hiking or biking tours ($), but we really got a kick out of our Wilderness Scotland Outer Hebrides trip. Small (10) group from all over the world, energetic people but not kids, superb Scots guide, semi-rustic places to stay. Kippers and Haggis for breakfast. Bring rain gear.


Carpe diem. Life is short.


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:51 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Are there any of those handbags left. I see a lot of black joggers coming out of those stores with free stuff. Are the stores even open anymore because some of those black joggers accidently hurt people and scared the shit out of them. I'm not saying the black joggers were wrong to break things up, threaten people with guns and steal everything because it is well established that black joggers are allowed to do that. But don't we at some point in the whole black jogger epidemic wake up and take our country back?
#1 JustMe on 2021-12-06 14:35 (Reply)
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#2 William O. B'Livion on 2021-12-06 17:48 (Reply)
Just like BD, trying to make a Prada out of a porkchop.
#3 Kneale on 2021-12-07 09:47 (Reply)

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