Rats in paradise!

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I have bought everyone's presents. "Everyone" being redcountess, arkady and Arkady's daughters Dani and Kit.

(Getting a present for one's girlfriend's twelve-year-old daughter at Lush is an interesting exercise: trying to find something whose description doesn't read like women's erotica for toiletries.)

Liz made it out of the house today, going to Wilkinson and Woolworth's in Wood Green for a remarkable quantity of Christmas decorations. (Liz: "I'm just wondering if we've got too many baubles." Me: "What are you, a heterosexual?") And a set of Christmas lights with an eight-setting control box. I must have missed the memo where Christmas lights turned into geek toys.

Arkady and I brought the livestock over and we now have two boy rats and a girl rat going "G'day! G'day!" at each other. For rats, every night is New Year's Eve! tom_pusscat was dissuaded from batting at the ornaments, so is half asleep but keeping a close eye out. Just in case any of them try to get away.

I got Arkady a T-shirt, a book and Lush "Slammer" shower gel. Liz got her the Doors An American Prayer and The Doors movie DVD. Arkady got Liz a Lost Boys DVD and soundtrack CD and me a T-shirt (I now own something from Alchemy Gothic ... oh dear) and a Theakston's pint glass and *pint*.

Our Solstice dinner was a large hunk of gammon with Wensleydale cheese and cranberry with potatoes, carrots and much-needed *pint*s. I am so annoyed I have to go to w*rk tomorrow.

We get two Christmases this year. So there.

Update: We just watched Lost Boys. The haircuts are unspeakable, but that's the best last line. (You have to watch the whole film first.) Now on the special features. Tom is trying to eat the tinsel off the tree; I fully expect to come in tomorrow to the tree on the floor.