Julepynten over gaden -- "Decorating" the town |
Det eneste, jeg håber på, er en ordentlig julestorm, der kan blæse "træet" meget langt væk.
Det er vist ikke længere nogen hemmelighed at Uglemor bor i nærheden af Helsinge. I folkemunde kaldes den Hæslinge, og den gør altså sit for at leve op til navnet.
Plastik-træet. Sponsornavnene sløret med vilje. The plastic tree. MotherOwl masked the sponsors. |
Her kan I læse om træets første år og om drivkraften bag juletræet af plastik: Penge, selvfølgelig.
Uglemor kan faktisk godt lide advent. men butikkerne gør indkøb til et nisse-forhindringsløb fra efterårsferien og frem til 23. december, så er det altså så som så med adventshyggen. Hvis nu Uglemor gerne vil skrive julekort, ja så må hun vist i gang med printer og papir, for de kort man kan købe i byen, er enten nissekort eller "Season's Greetings". Ingen af delene har meget med jul at gøre, vel?
Og på fredag er det så 1. december og der starter nisse-ræset for alvor. Ugleungerne har fået tildelt nissevenner i klasserne, og de skal have gaver – bare små gaver, bevares – men mindst tre gange om ugen, så ingen bliver skuffet.
Uglemor har lyst til adventshygge, små historier, adventskrans, adventsvindue, Jessetræ og mange andre ting sammen med Ugleungerne. Jeg ville meget hellere passe og pleje vores egne traditioner end at fare småforvirret rundt hver-hveranden morgen efter små ting/kager, der kan bruges til nissevennerne. Men som jeg sagde her, så kan krudtet jo kun bruges én gang.
At skrive dette indlæg har krævet stor selvbeherskelse fra Uglemors side. Bemærk venligst at der kun er ET ord med store bogstaver, ingen kursiveringer eller understregninger, og så har jeg oven i købet holdt måde med udråbstegnene også!
This year's Christmas or rather "Let us celebrate Advent and Christmas"-rant.
MotherOwl is buggered that Santa and his elves have taken over Christmas. It's impossible to find a Christmas card, as everything is either Santas or Seasonal greetings. The shops in Denmark sells "Christmas" candy, cakes and things from October 10th until December 23rd. MotherOwl totally understand that you can only stand Santas, elves, pine cones, mistletoe and candy canes for so long. But why on Earth not just wait a little longer before decorating the shops?
Yesterday Mother Owl went shopping in town. The town was dressed for Christmas. Please note that I did NOT say nicely dressed. Because 1) it is not nice!2) it is way too early for Christmas lights - especially ugly ones - on dreary, rainy days.
And the decorations in the town where MotherOwl goes shopping are ugly. Three squares of glittering lights, the smaller one in the middle is a gift - but this can only be seen in daylight - it is symbolic of the shops' take on Christmas. Buy, buy, buy. No hearts or stars or chubby angels, no pine needles or spruce, holly or ivy.
And even though we live in a community renowned for its nature, its proximity to forests, coastlines and farmland, the Christmas tree in my shopping town is made out of plastic! It is no longer a secret, that MotherOwl lives near Helsinge, a town jokingly named Hæslinge (= Uglyville) by its inhabitants. They're really doing a good job of keeping up with the ugliness.
The coming Friday is December 1st. In school, the Owlets are paired with a class mate - so called nissevenner (elf-friends). They're supposed to give gifts to one another -- small gifts of course -- but three times a week so that no-one gets dissappointed.
MotherOwl loves advent traditions, Jesse tree, our advent window, candles, story-time, baking etc. But her energy are most days eaten up by trying to find gifts for suffering "nissevenner" or small things for party-gifts or wharever pranks the powers-that-be have invented ... Energy can be used only once, and our own advent preparations are suffering.
Please notice the self restraint used in this post. I've used capitals only ONCE! no italics, and only a meagre allotment of exclamation marks!
Gyseligt.
SvarSletSo sorry you have such an ugly tree. Thanks for the comment on my blog!
SvarSlet