I know where to take you when you come over!
The Slipper Market in Zakopane.
Phew. One less task to organise
Chez Tasmania, no drinking before I start in the kitchen with the Lunch prep around 0900 hours. I find that by the time lunch is served at 2pm or so, my in laws are quite pleasant.
At Christmas I do treat myself to some fine wines whilst cooking, under the pretence that it is for cooking, but decent chablis grand cru and grand cru class St Emilion are staplesā¦ before the aperitif of a nice bubbly, and then the special wine, desert wine and this year a nice 40 year old armagnacā¦ 
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Fuck, he probably agreed that with a not-at-all-considered āyes dearā.
And like the rest of us inattentive blokes, heāll swear he didnāt agree to such a thing!
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This will be my 5th dry Christmas. Makes things more manageable, surprisingly. I never used to get raging pissed though, more of a steady flow of booze throughout the day from the mandatory breakfast bucks fizz onwards, I donāt think it actually led directly to any arguments.
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Hmm, seems a I purchased it myself with my legally gotten gains I canāt see how this would workā¦
Mind you I have to pay for my own birthday meals that I get taken out for so anything is possibleā¦
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my partner is getting slippers for xmas as his are falling apart and he is fully aware that is what he is getting.
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I do not own a pair of slippers and do not want a pair for Christmas or any other time of the year.
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Deserves to be more widely shared imho 
The family has remarked that my Christmas list this year is rather modest. I used to ask them for āa manned and operational aircraft carrierā.
After a lifetime Iāve dialled it right down* and have asked for a few posters, some slippers āwith a fucking back on themā and a new wallet.
* After a long & tedious process of asking for fully operational frigates, gunboats, dinghies or inflatable tubes.
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This Christmas Iāve asked for a fleet of Inflatable craft to import staff and quality continental wines. Delays at Channel Ports will be intolerable after Brexit.
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You know Pfizer are having logistical problems delivering the required quantities of covid vaccine? I may have unwitting caused that by ordering half the lorries to deliver the C_S family stock of wine and fromageā¦Oooops.
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I know, I could have offloaded the rest and stocked up for next Easter as well. What was I thinking? 
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You state this as if you were expecting one of us to buy you some. 
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Are you allowed to wear them on a rig?
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What goes on the rig stays on the rig. 
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Kid Goat is currently wearing these:
I would have asked for a bottle of Rum if that was the case 
I have had to source slippers without a back. He is also getting a shirt he picked.
I still have no idea what to get my parents.