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Merry Christmas everyone. And we all know what that
means, don't we? It means that I have stopped answering the phone, emails,
carrier pigeons or any other forms of literati people may use to try
and distract me from the layout.
The thought has occurred to me that I can actually
take an entire week now to work on the layout. After having danced with
glee at this thought to the point where most of the town of Jandowae
is thinking "I thought Adam needed to change his medication,"
it was down to work.
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That fat bloke in the red pajamas will be here
soon and I reckon he's got to be getting pretty tired of brandy
and biscuits being left out as bribery to encourage the giving
of more presents.
That's right, what Santa wants is to play trains!
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So whilst Jade chased tour new puppy around the
yard wielding a camera and a Christmas outfit (yes a doggie
Christmas outfit, I didn't know they made them either… go figure)
I thought I should sneak down stairs and get stuck into the layout
before I get "persuaded" into putting up more Christmas lights.
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You know, because it's important that the residents
of the Mir space station know that the Wuiskes are in the Christmas
spirit.
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| So it is time to start getting this mountain looking
like a mountain. I have been using chicken wire over a timber form
to build the base for the mountain. I then layer some plaster bandage
over the chicken wire (just one layer as it is pretty expensive
stuff). Once this is done, I put a layer of plaster over the plaster
bandage…. "Can you give me a hand |
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| please Jade? … O.K. thanks, now go back
to traumatising the dog please." |
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I discovered that it is possible to get a bit
carried away with the size of mountains… Since this one is eight
feet wide and over six feet high, it presents a couple of problems
just trying to reach the top to plaster it. "Jade… can you please
give me a hand again?"
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| It was at this point where it dawned on me (so
I was told anyway) that a rather small dog dressed in a Santa suit
and looking decidedly depressed, is of much greater importance than
such silly things as "layouts". Thankfully, my mother arrived for
Christmas and the progress of the layout was ensured for a couple
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Along with my mother came a close friend of mine Damien,
who had come up to help out with the layout.
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So whilst Jade and my mother searched high and
low for a dead horse to talk the ear off, Damien and I got stuck
in to the important stuff.
As the light faded Damien and I decided It was
time to console the dog with a quiet drink to help her get over
the days trauma.
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All in all we had a rather successful week and
now have a mountain that is starting to look like a mountain.
Merry Christmas
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