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But Of Course - It's Christmas Day!
     The world has better things to do than read Conrad's somewhat obtuse and idiosyncratic blog.
     Don't forget, though, when that invasion fleet arrives, readers of this blog get a Stay-Alive-For-The-Meantime pass.

Following The Christmas Theme -
     One of my presents today was a 1950 edition of "Biggles Sweeps The Desert".  Don't laugh!  Biggles is one of my childhood heroes.  I've read a ton of novels about him but not this one.
    

Here it is, in all it's 60 year old glory

 Flicking idly through it, what did Conrad discover?  The following:

 

That's the author's signature there.

That couldn't really be a genuine signed letter, could it?  No.  No, of course not.  Otherwise the book would have sold for £50, not £5. Or could it?

Conrad.  Laughing All The Way
     As festive as I get.

As laughy as I get, too.

This posting photos instead of long text articles is easy!  Let us continue!

Red, White And Green
     I have made up some very sticky Christmas-pudding-and-chocolate truffles.  Next step is to pour white chocolate on top of them, then add a bit of red and white decoration to mimic holly.  The recipe calls for angelica or green glace cherries, neither of which I have, so I decided to pick out the green vermicelli from the green, red and white assortment hiding in a Christmas cake decorating tub.

Twenty minutes well spent!

Lastly
     The guard hog and hard hog have Christmas off, so BOOJUM! mansions are only protected (in terms of live bodies) by the cyborg laser-eye cats.  Who have been given lead-and-boron shielding to lie on, because the only spare space in the Dangerous Kitchen over Christmas is atop the atomic pile.

Fortunately Conrad was wearing his Hazmat suit to take this photo -

 - because, dammit, getting lasered in the face can really smart.