chuckers <chuckersjp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 1:22?am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > As usual, I'm sick of the bloody thing already. Can't wait for the
> > morning of the 25th when all the decorations are gone and the muzak
> > switched.

> Could do with a bit of snow to make it worthwhile.

The year I lived in Inogashira, it snowed the day before Christmas, and
on Shogatsu. Didn't last long, but the park was gorgeous.

> I am impressed with the speed with which one pine tree is switched for
> another in that brief one week leading up to the new year.  Christmas,
> I don't mind.  It's the lead up to the New Year where the spouse as
> "We have to clean the whole house top to bottom before Dec 31st" that
> gets me down.  What's this "we" stuff?

Exactly; by "we" she means "you".

Mike