One of my neighbours over the road has put up her blue Christmas lights. We live on a narrow, uneven, unadopted country road and the lights are like a strong singer in a small, out-of-the-way nightclub where not many people come, but the singer has put on her blue dress made out of sequins that catch the spotlight, and you can't help but admire the singer but you also sometimes wish that this performance would stop, that she would go back into the dressing room or sit quietly drinking by the bar so you don't have to keep looking at her.
The blue light show will go on until the night of 5th January, breaking up the darkness of the holy nights. There is something convivial about the lights. They have heart. You would miss them if they went, as you would miss the singer if she sloped off one night, never to return.
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A very intense blue.
Your post just right, offhand and yet serious.
Hello from Boston on this rainy night . . .
You know, reading this made me miss your "narrow, uneven, unadopted country road". Would be nice ambling down it with you, talking sense and nonsense and everything in between.
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Thank you, Mim - for the response, but also for drawing my attention to the combination of offhand and serious. Which I also do like, when I find it.
You would like it today, Anna - bright blue sky, and sun. But ambling at night is good too. We have a Narnian lamp in the road to stand unter, Marlene-like.
Perhaps you need to post the Narnia Marlene lamp, too? For me.
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the community centre across the road is sporting coloured lights on its roof, about which I feel rather the same way
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Five January ain't bad.
My wife's older relatives used to leave the Christmas tree up until the Kaiser's birthday.
(around the 29 Jan., I think.)
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