December 16th, 2002

Phantom Monkey

It's the most wonderful time of the year

It's that time again - time to pull out the Christmas decorations from whatever mouldy corner they've been hiding in, dust them off and get them set up. A few raggedy bits of tinsel, the odd star and a genetically modified fairy (green hair, bleeding heart and stigmata - my sister's doing a couple of years back) Time to have fun with fairy lights! Fist try: last years lights, string of 20, clear white. A quick test shows they're still working. Put them on the tree - nothing. Take them off - nothing. Check all the bulbs - nothing. OK, so I dig out an older set of lights - 40-60 multicoloured with 4 different settings - a bit much for a 3 foot fake tree., so I decide to pull a bulb out to test the other set. What I get is just the bulb - the glass bit - without the plastic mounting, now decidedly broken. Great, so now I have two broken sets of fairy lights and no [expletive deleted] clue where the [expletive deleted] spare bulbs are - assuming there ever were any. [long string of expletives deleted]
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