Buckwheat

It is both a Christmas tree and a New Year's tree as far as I am concerned! My family does the whole gifts under the tree on the 1st January. I hope you are having a nice day!

Happy Christmas or Hamoulimepp, whatever you people are celebrating.

A last minute background! https://i.imgur.com/6WjsAfC.jpg

Yay! Thanks! I love the corgi. Do you realise 2023 is the year we are leaving behind, yes?

Fomney! Hi! What is that is making life very good for you?

I just use a combination of the old version of Paint and some new version of Paint, called 3D Paint. It is not perfect, but it works. It's great! Colours!

Sadly, not many people seem to be interested in decorating this year ... but at least I can add some colour. https://i.imgur.com/m1DMMN0.jpg Hope to see some more contributions from everybody!

*pokes thread* I am soooooo busy. Last week and this week, I am staying late at work almost every day and working more at home in the evenings ... and last Saturday and this coming Saturday, I also have some seminars to attend, so I am not even getting proper weekends. I cannot wait for the holidays - just over a week and then I get one week off, yay. Don't forget to contribute to the board Christmas tree - link in my signature!

We need more baubles. https://i.imgur.com/4xo8o1g.jpg

Yay! Thank you for your contributions. I have to add some more presents too. https://i.imgur.com/ckey3Jg.png

I start. Here it is: https://i.imgur.com/G3wH4b1.jpeg And music to go with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52GsqHvrPBg In my defence, it wasn't my idea.

@Pebble thats Stubby @RhaenysBee @The BlackBear @rocksniffer @Ser Lany @felice @Jez Bell and whoever else visits this forum, come add to the tree and bring your friends too!

I generally posted something like this around the 1st of December, but this year I've been so busy I completely forgot about it till today. So with only a bit more than two weeks until Christmas, I welcome everybody to the tree-decorating game again! Everybody who wants to play, old and new, is welcome! Here are the rules again: 1. This is the template for our tree. 2. The first player to play downloads the template from the imgur link I posted under 1. Every next player downloads the picture the player before them posted. 3. Open the picture in Paint, Photoshop or any other picture editing program. Draw decorations on it: You can add colour, an ornament, background, presents ... whatever you like and whatever you think suits our tree. 4. Save the new picture (in the jpg-format) and upload it to imgur.com. Post a direct link to the picture into this thread. 5. The next person repeats the process adding decorations to your picture etc. You can play as many times as you want. Some reasonable guidelines about picture standards: a) Do not change the size of the picture. b ) Do not add explicitly sexual or violent material. I want this game to stay completely safe for children and work and common decency and stuff. c) Try not to cover the whole tree with decorations in the first few steps, some space must be left for the next players too. č) Do not cover/erase other people's contributions. d) Pasting parts of other pictures/photos into this picture is allowed. e) Using imagination is welcome. Still unsure about how it works? Have a look at what we did in the past years: The original one: 2016 2017: Rocking around the Christmas tree 2018 - third time's the charm 2019 and its lovely angels The apocalyptic 2020 Dreaming of a wight Christmas 2021 The ever more expensive 2022 I hope to see many lovely contributions this year too!

I am not a native English speaker, so I don't even notice such things. That explains it.

I actually liked the 2010 Robin Hood. I am surprised by the dislike for it.

I just saw Napoleon today and I am disappointed ... I agree with all the bad reviews on here. The relationships between the characters weren't fleshed out enough, the story didn't seem like it follows a silver lining. Also too much voiceover. And yes, I also recognised the score from Pride and Prejudice immediately. Weird choice. But at least I learned something new - I thought until now that the song was not written for P&P the 2005 movie, but that it was an original from the 1800s!

Great to see all the pictures, Lany! The gentlemanperson and I are currently discussing moving in together/looking for an actually affordable place to live in, which is very tricky, but I do hope we manage to find something soon-ish. I think I have had enough of my tiny flat in the tiny town I work in - I love living so close to work that I can walk there every day, but the ants are getting on my nerves. And plenty of other things about this flat too, to be honest.

A bit late answer, but not really - we just drank tea and chatted a lot. The first one does seem like a lot of work, if you want to make more than one of these. But you seem to have everything thought out and planned already! My brother and I usually gift our parents together and as usual, we have no clue about what to buy for them, this year is no exception. I don't even know what to gift the boyfriend. As far as I am concerned, all the gift money we would spend on each other should go to our short trip to Italy in the days between Christmas and New Year - I think the best things to gift somebody are experiences, events, something to do together. He, however, disagrees, because he thinks it needs to be something you can wrap nicely in a big box. Nah, the trips to Germany for that purpose are supposed to be finished now. I just need to finish writing and then hand it in and then wait for the comments and corrections from the professors and then correct everything again and then hand in the final version and have it printed and bound, and wait for the date of the defense and then pass the defense ... and and and and it still sounds like a LOT. Awwwww, sorry about hating your new home. At least you can see your kids and grandkids! Nope, I don't think there has been any impostor. I hope you manage to retrieve the original account, it would be a shame to lose everything in it. Oh, terrible about the book club! At least you have this online one you can access any time. But I am glad you at least found some geeks there.

I've heard some coworkers say our students still smoke or at least try to in the school bathrooms ... I personally haven't caught any doing it, but it is possible that it happens. I have seen students smoke outside of school grounds. I don't think many do it though. But vaping is more popular with the teenagers than cigarettes now.

One of my coworkers sometimes mentions how they still smoked in the staff room at school a few decades ago. I cannot even imagine that now, smoking is very much prohibited both in the school building and on the school grounds.

It sounds very interesting to me! I couldn't commit to a whole Secret Santa, but I would be interested in this, it sounds a lot more affordable.

Thanks! I hope you have a relaxing weekend too. I just visited a friend and her family. What is your magic? I haven't even started gathering and New Year's gift ideas (I am used to presents at New Year) and I almost never have any ideas about what to buy people. You seem to have so many ideas for everybody's gift, maybe you should open a business offering ideas for people. I would hire you. My sincerest condolences. You seem to be busy. I am busy, everything is good with the gentleman, I just hope I finish with the dissertation soon ... but as soon as the new school year started for real, I ran out if time to work on it for any significant time, sadly. I really need to finish the thing.

Lany! I hope you are the right Lany at least. What happened to your account? Yes, it lasted for two days, then I went back to work on Wednesday. I am exhausted now after two long days at work though. How are you, RB?

Bleh. Sick. Staying at home for at least two days and hope it improves. I was supposed to go back to work today, and instead I am staying home feeling crappy.

It's not winter, it's been coming for a long time. Grrrr.