This article playfully discusses the approaching Christmas holiday, highlighting the importance of battery safety due to the prevalence of lithium button batteries in gifts. It also shares a humorous anecdote about a friend's wife accidentally swallowing Duracell batteries and mentions a survey revealing Sir David Attenborough as the most desired Christmas dinner guest.
Let's start with a wee message for all you insomniacs… only two more sleeps until Christmas ! Yes, folks, whether you like it or not, Christmas is just around the corner. If you don’t believe me, just look at all the Easter eggs on supermarket shelves…
At this time of year, I always have a couple of festive queries about so-called PC World. Will they be open on Black Friday? And are they allowed to play White Christmas? I’ve had a lifelong aversion to the stuff and I don’t care if this offends any friends, family or relatives – if I open a Christmas card and detect one little glimmer of glitter, I won’t even read the message before chucking it straight in the bin. And that might explain, Mrs C, why you think we only received three cards last year…
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By the way, dear reader, have you ever wondered what started the tradition of putting a fairy on top of the Christmas tree? Well, a long, long time ago – on a busy Xmas Eve just before midnight – one of the fairies apparently asked a totally knackered Mr Claus: “Haw, Santa, what do you want me to do with this Christmas tree?” The rest, as they say, is history…
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