"It's six pink peppermints to Christmas, and there's lots and lots of things for us to do!

You and I will bake a pumpkin pie and pick a purple tie for Uncle Lou.
It's five pink peppermints to Christmas, and there's lots and lots of things for us to do!
Make the cookies, Fill the punch bowl.  Light the candles.
Sing Christmas carols 'round the tree. ..
String the popcorn, Trim the pine tree, Hang the stocking, Hide the presents...."
It's six pink peppermints to Christmas.

~ Lines from "The Christmas Candy Calendar" by Robert Maxwell
THE CHRISTMAS TREE From a Painting by Albert Chevalier Tayler

Today Only his Nose Shows

The Neat L'l Bookshop has postponed the Third Thursday Reading.  "Ol' Dylan has been dead long enough that he isn't going anywhere -- he will still be around whenever we get back to him." ~ Laurie Miller

We look forward to rescheduling the Dylan Thomas reading.  Thank you, Laurie.

[Photo of Boy With Book taken before the big storm.  Today, only his nose shows.]




This is *before* the big storm

Smile for Today ~

"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it!"

~Unknown

"I don't want a flu jab.  I like getting flu.  It gives me something else to complain about."

~ David Letterman

"I was born in 1962.  True.  And the room next to me was 1963."

~ Joan Rivers

~Quotations from: Old Geezer Wit, Richard Benson, Summersdale Publishers Ltd., 2006.

 



Gizmo

Faye Farrance, volunteer and friend of the bookshop, is recovering well in West Haldimand Hospital, Hagersville.  Her wee dog, Gizmo, is missing her and wondering where her mother is.

 

Faye thanks everyone for their good wishes, kindnesses and support.  We are not sure when Faye will be getting home ~ Get well quickly, Faye.

 

Update:  Faye returned home in time for Christmas.  She welcomes visits, email, phone calls and can be contacted on Facebook:  Faye O'Handley Farrance.  Speedy recovery Faye.