{"id":3117,"date":"2010-11-15T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2010-11-24T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:18:19","slug":"jims-christmas-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/friends\/jims-christmas-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim&#8217;s Christmas Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Dear Santa Love Jim\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/5166583006_5f92c64708_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Dear Santa&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">My Name Is<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"> Andrew Robinson<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, But you can call me<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Jim.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">I&#8217;ve been a good boy this year because<\/span> I haven&#8217;t killed, maimed or even harmed anyone thus far.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t committed any crimes bar the occasional traffic misdemeanor.<br \/>\nApart from that, I&#8217;ve fed my family, walked my dog and kept my financial and social affairs in order.\u00a0 All in all, It hasn&#8217;t been a bad year excepting the disgracefully poor excuse that Britain calls Summer.\u00a0 I did go on holiday to Spain for a week, though.\u00a0 It was nice.\u00a0 I found a new favourite lager there, Cruzcampo. They sell it in that supermarket (the Spanish call them Supermercados) down the road from the hotel on the left hand side of the road opposite the roundabout, you know.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">This is what I would like for Christmas:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1)<\/strong> I would like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/tearcraft\/wooden-playing-cards-box\/\">Wooden Fair Trade Card Holder<\/a>, because I love a good card game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2)<\/strong> And I would like some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/suma\/suma-garlic---coriander-nan-x2\/\">Suma Naan breads<\/a>, because they are tasty and I enjoy curries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3)<\/strong> I&#8217;d also like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/shared-earth\/kid-s-fair-trade-cotton-rucksack---dog\/\">Kids Fair Trade Cotton Doggy Rucksack<\/a> for my nephew, Asher.\u00a0 Here is a picture of him <a href=\"http:\/\/d.pr\/GFvY\">http:\/\/d.pr\/GFvY<\/a> He will be one on the 17th of December, so some extra Christmas presents will come in handy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Oh and Just One More Thing&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">If I could have one wish this Christmas it would be<\/span> for Rachel in the office to make me more coffee.\u00a0 And for Slade to be banished into the underworld at Christmas-time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">Whilst listening to my favourite song, which is <\/span>Driving Home for Christmas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">When You Come to Visit<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">The best way to get to my house is<\/span> to look for the garden with the white and ginger dog in it, and the house that has a dog&#8217;s sausage toy on the roof tiles.\u00a0 I tried to throw it from the back garden to the front and, well, let&#8217;s say it didn&#8217;t go the whole way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">But Make Sure You&#8217;re Careful Of<\/span> the chimney.\u00a0 I don&#8217; t have a fireplace, but funnily enough I have a chimney.\u00a0 So be careful of that.\u00a0 I have an electric fire, so you might as well come through the front door.\u00a0 The dog will bark at you, but just give him an angry look and he&#8217;ll flee in the opposite direction.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re dropping presents off in the living room though, make sure you keep the kitchen door closed as it gets quite cold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">When you visit, I promise I&#8217;ll leave you out a <\/span>Sky+ control and all of the Die Hard&#8217;s recorded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">And I&#8217;ll leave Rudolph<\/span> the sausage toy off the roof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">With Lots of Love<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">From Jim x<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: black;\">P.S.<\/span> I once saw my dad bringing in a bike from the back of the car at about 12am on Christmas day when I was 8 or 9.\u00a0 He said you&#8217;d dropped it off in the front garden, but I&#8217;m not so sure. 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