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The sort of queues I don’t mind … mum observed, in the car on the way to Bury, on the way to the tram, on the way to Manchester - I’m filling her suspenseful pause with this lengthy ellipsis … are the kind where you stand in a line.

It was about here – no, it was exactly here – that Gruff and I made plenty of room for an even longer ellipsis.

So we caught the tram to the city and had a mother daughter Saturday pre-Christmas thorough exploration of my mother’s queue preference.


Things To Do

Cake: Soak fruit in booze; chuck all the stuff together and cook; voodoo with more booze; marzipan; ice; eat.
Pressies: buy; wrap; distribute (wearing stiff gauntlet to save fingers). addendum: forget to give Suffolk ones to mum when she visits.
Pressies from kids: buy; make; wrap; post / give out.
Cards: buy / make; give out / post.
Decorations: consider putting up; put up; take down.
Christmas dinner: yeah, right.
Booze: buy; drink; buy; drink; be bought; drink; buy; drink; buy; drink; scrounge; drink; drink; drink; drink; buy; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink; drink (list in progress).