Scott Family Christmas Message 2008

Animals, Black sheep, Chickens, Ducks, Eggs, Forty-two, Gardening goatlessly, Holiday (one whole month), Irrigation system, Joining school board of trustees, Kaka, Lambing, Munich, New Scientists, Operation, Prague, Quack-quack goodbye ducks, Reading, School camp Stepdaughter Santa Rosa Shopping SorryGotCarriedAwayThere, Thomassons, Up up and away, Van-Gogh museum, Watercolouring, X-trainer, Yet again on a diet, Zucchini cake.

The year contained: a balloon flight, Odins, a hammock, reflections on New Zealand, hedgehogs, Amelia, more Amelia, Marion and Kent, Hamilton gardens, students, lectures, restaurants, Thomassons, luge, Blue Typhooning, more house guests, meccano, mindstorms, trains, restaurants, house guests, more trains, yet more trains, fuck more trains, bigger goddamn trains, intravenous trains, board games, Sydney, Mind the Gap, students, lectures, a tsunami of Carnovales, Europe (Munich, Skype, Prague, Skype, Brussels, Skype, Amsterdam, Skype), Santa Rosa, Amelia again, blah, blah, blah, school prizegiving, already it's Christmas again and I probably missed lots of stuff (not trains).

Those of you we saw, it was good to see you, those of you we didn't see, we hope our paths cross soon.

Babble babble Bionicles babble babble Lego babble babble babble babble babble computer games babble babble babble Lego babble babble babble babble babble school babble babble babble babble babble computer games babble babble babble babble chocolate babble babble babble babble luge babble babble babble babble babble Lego babble babble babble babble babble trains babble babble babble babble Star Wars babble babble babble 8 babble computer games babble babble babble school academic cup babble babble Oasis babble babble babble babble Lego.

I have a woolly sheepie who won a first prize at Agricultural Day. His Name is Cupid and he is Black, Brown, And White. Littlest Pet Shop is a bobble-headed animal toy. I have lots of Littlest Pet Shops. Littlest Pet Shops! Lalala Littlest Pet Shops! More Littlest Pet Shops! Even More Littlest Pet Shops! Hey look! More Littlest Pet Shops! Littlest Pet Shops? Littlest Pet Shops. ...Uh, yah. Littlest Pet Shops. Yeah well, so what if I like Littlest Pet Shops? Nothing Wrong with Adorable Cute Animals, especially Cupid and the fluffy kitties. Bunce-kutsss, bunce-kutsss, bunce-kutsss!

(Merinda was a little preoccupied with her LPS creatures and bass rhythms when we asked for her contribution. -Ed.)

Missing all our friends and family in many countries,
the Scott Family wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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