Outed Grinch

…choosing to be on nightshift can often mean that you are unintentionally excluded from participating in the day to day group activities of a busy, team oriented workplace….

…there’s been considerable excitement at ours about a company wide, branch versus branch Xmas “decorate-the-office-competition” …

…someone even managed to borrow a float from Dunedin’s Santa Parade for group photos….of course they were arranged to take place whilst I would be sound asleep….

…I know I’m renowned for my anti Xmas-spirit…but deep down I’m a competitive bastard and was starting to feel a little left out…..the float was in the shed when I arrived at work and that note on the notice board did say I could shift it if I needed to…..

…so I had my own Santa Parade….

…so little time….so much to do…..

…so you should probably dock me 20 minutes for pissing about, Boss…

…jingle bells…

…(and the photos? ….. taken the next day before I clocked out!)…..

Warning To All My Brethren And Sistren In Logistics And Retail

…unlike the first robin of spring but similar to the ground hog on ground hog day….

…the first pallet of Xmas crap stock arrived in the warehouse last night…

…it’s coming boys and girls….

…earlier every year, I swear…

…brace yourselves….

…(…also note inverted “caution” symbols…it’s not even October and your shit is already upside down!….)….

This Is Not The Bottle I Thought It Was

…beach walking at Aramoana…had to “tsk” when I sighted a discarded wine bottle at the high water mark on the harbour edge of the spit…

…was pleasantly surprised to find this… …McGavins brewery was est.1882 (as Union brewery) and fizzled out after a merger with other local brewers in 1923…

… so this bottle has been sitting in the sand dune waiting to be eroded onto the beach….or been floating around (and around and around) for some considerable time….

…hey!…dispose of your festive empties responsibly folks…

…seasons felicitations one and all.

Surround Drowned

…in Xmas Lps…

…jingle bells…

…jingle bells…

..jingle bells…

…jingle bells…

…jingle bells…

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…jingle bells…

…jingle bells…

 

 

…and the award for “Creepiest-Santa-On-A-Record-Label” goes to….

 

…jingle bells.

This One Is For All My Fellow Retailers

…on this, the day before comsumo-fest…

…jingle bells.

Display Display Display

…display.

Oh Crap Is That The Date

…it’s the 21st of December and I haven’t yet posted pictures of this years Xmas album display…

 

…it was my good friend Dee’s only “chore” when she gave me the afternoon off…and she did a damn fine job….

…this years Xmas record sales have equaled last years (3) and with a half promise on another, we may, for the fourth year running, be about to experience continued growing returns from this emerging market…

…speaking of “damn”… the figures for my nativity scene haven’t been as popular as I thought they would be…maybe I should stop referring to them as Xmas desecrations rather than Xmas decorations….

…(no photo of them as a group, sorry, but unlike the very well behaved cows and sheep, the my ass wouldn’t stay still for the shot)….

..(badum tisss)…

 

 

…and finally…a framed, needle point piccy from 1958, of a little dog I got from the dump as an Xmas pressies for myself….

 

 

…(yes, I have since taken the time to clean the seagull poo off of it)….

…jingle bells.

 

Twas The Day Before Xmas

…and all thru the shop…

 

…not a Too Tone was stirring ….

…not even to blog.

Many happy recoveries from the season. T xx.