These two figural baubles were available
from John Lewis, I particularly like
the Elephant! And - of course - the two nicer ones are more expensive!
While Habitat
on-line was offering these three robot baubles @ 20-quid for the set of three,
they are too cool for mech-school!
Paperchase have had a set of three robot glass baubles for the last few years, but they are also about £20 and they're half the size, so I'm waiting 'till they appear in a charity shop . . . and they will!
I haven't the faintest idea what's going on
here, suffice to say the Elf on a Shelf
is not "A Christmas Tradition",
he only started to be mentioned here (in the UK) a few years ago and like Halloween is - I suspect - some
marketing-driven import from the New World, he's an ugly little shit, making the sternest
nutcracker look cuddly!
They're so excited!
The advert seems to be a marketing ploy to
get maximum personal details from dim-witted readers as possible in exchange
for ten 'things' which the small print makes clear won't look anything like the
illustration . . . who falls for this crap? 'But he's rather sweet, and the kiddies like him!' Fuck-off - you
simpering simple-minded simpletons; you'd buy a polished turd if the tabloids
told you it was this season's retro-cool, or that 'Eurocrats' don't want you
have one, are planning to ban them or make them all a standard length!
I dare say most of the UK readers and a
fair number of overseas viewers will know exactly what this is, but I'll
plow-on regardless; to tick a box!
Ladies and gentlemen - this is the image
that launched a thousand, nay, nay and thrice nay . . . TEN-thousand tabloid column-inches back
in Mid-November. Being the last picture in a 24 (not 25!) window advent calendar
issued by Gregg's, our national
bakery and snack/sandwich-shop chain.
Yes, that is the Little Baby Jesus depicted
as a sausage-roll*, and yes, he's had his head (or feet? It's hard to tell from
this angle!) bitten-off by a hungry, lunching, office-worker!
Really it was a storm in a tea-cup and the
usual twisted, protestant-outrage of the tabloids, no one has complained about
the other 23 images (Cheops' Great Pyramid fashioned of a giant crashed space-sandwich,
shepherd's flock-hills of buns, that sort of thing), nor the 24 vouchers for cheap snacks and breads hidden
behind/attached to the windows! I'm more interested in the three figures!
Pugh's take on the 'scandal' (Gregg's apologised profusely, but the
publicity is unlikely to have hurt them one bit!) seen in the Daily Wail on
November the 16th.
* For visitors to the blog who may
not be familiar with the item, a sausage-roll - especially a cheap one from a
high-street chain - is a machine-extruded tube of processed sawdust
bound-together with rusk and a bit of gypsum, flavoured with road-kill and too-much
pepper, the whole contained within an egg or milk-glazed, hot, damp, cardboard
tube - we built an Empire on them!
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