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This year's Xmas Card

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Has a suitably festive theme (for some definitions of festive)

The PDF is here

https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas2024.pdf

the illustration comes from a 1900-ish card via this article

https://hyperallergic.com/261847/have-a ... ian-cards/
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Just to wish the appropriate "Festive Felicitations" to all!
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Happy Hogswatch to all....
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Salutations to all...
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Just to wish everybody all the very best over the festive period!

May 2026 be a better year for all of us!
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Cholmondely wrote: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:51 pm
Just to wish everybody all the very best over the festive period!

May 2026 be a better year for all of us!
Cheers and yes! Jolly improvements all round.
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Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year!
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Happy Christmas, everyone!
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Wildeblood wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 6:08 am
Happy Christmas, everyone!
Is it still Xmas at your end of existence?
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Cholmondely wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:35 pm
...at your end of existence?
The rumours of my death have been greatly - hey, who butchered my avatar!?
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Wildeblood wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 9:57 pm
Cholmondely wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:35 pm
...at your end of existence?
The rumours of my death have been greatly - hey, who butchered my avatar!?
What are the consequences of the inexistence of your avatar for your own existence?
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Cholmondely wrote: Fri Dec 26, 2025 12:20 am
What are the consequences of the inexistence (sic) of your avatar for your own existence?
Well, I hope it's not what they call an "omen". You can see it, too, right? It's not just me?
Cholmondely wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:35 pm
Is it still Xmas at your end of existence?
It is now boxing day, and a pleasant 20C. Christmas Day is now yesterday, which was 43C here. (I think, either we are experiencing a "cool change", or the heat is making me hallucinate.)
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I too can also see that the unseeable is unseeable.

Back in Blighty it has been rather frigid. Some sunshine on the day itself, but Xmas Eve heralded the start of a cold snap. No snow, of course, although it was predicted. Circa 150° on the [Wikipedia] Delisle scale
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Wildeblood wrote: Fri Dec 26, 2025 5:43 am
Well, I hope it's not what they call an "omen". You can see it, too, right? It's not just me?
Looking at your profile, I notice that "Interests: Nil known."

Might the lack of interests be related to the lack of avatar?
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