Do you Still Send Christmas Cards?

Bob (since we have the sport of picking up your typos and errors) I doubt that in your RAF days you would have had a fiancé. Times change as we all know, but I bet you were ringing your fiancée.

 

I've had experience (on the receiving end) of that inability to calculate which way the time difference goes. It was amplified in our case by our moving from several hours ahead of UK to several hours behind. Some members of our family seemed not to grasp that we had changed zones. And the knack of finding a time slot when to ring, such as before 6 p.m. our time to catch mother-in-law before she went to bed.
One of the memories that sticks is a young man in Australia who was diligently working out the time difference to/from the UK. He was doing extremely well, factoring in the fact that we in Melbourne were on (summer) Daylight Saving Time, until he asked me in all seriousness if Britain was also on Daylight Saving. I think was polite as I pointed out that it was currently mid-winter in the UK so no, they weren't on British Summer Time.

 

It's a bit like tourists coming to Finland in midwinter to see the Midnight sun.

 

Brilliant!!

 

All I can say in my defence is that I did think to check it in my pocket oxford dictionary, mainly to get the accent right, but failed to notice the (fem~ee) bit. Suitably chastised.

 

There was a bit about Christmas cards on the BBC news this morning. Apparently in the UK we send more Christmas cards per head of population than any other country in the world. Also, cards are often the only handwritten things sent by post thse days which may be why people look forward to receiving them.

 

Hmm, interesting. I wonder if the British have more far-flung relatives and friends than other people. Also, I think the custom of sending Christmas cards started in England, so that may have something to do with it. Anyhow, I've just received yet another round robin full of brilliant grandchildren.

 

And what about the amazing overseas trips???