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Hello. Ah me, John Coltrane, with things, favorite things.

Enough to remind me that in a few days' time I'll be facing the annual task of putting Christmas

away for another year.

Well, I mean, perhaps we might leave the wting tree a little longer, but it's surely time to take down those sagging streamers and the plastic father Christmas.

Then there are all those Christmas cards.

It's a pity to throw them out just yet.

Same goes for the half box of unused crackers and the three half burned Christmas candles.

Never know when they might come in useful. Can't say the same about the

advent calendar, but it's a pity to chuck out such a pretty cover. And then there's all that,

all that discarded wrapping paper worth folding up neatly for reuse.

Hmm. Fortunately though, these decisions about what might or might not turn out to be useful can be postponed by one simple act. The simple act of bundling up all the questionable items and pushing them into the remaining spare space in the

cupboard under the stairs where they can sit happily alongside an ancient bicycle

pump, a broken chest expander and a water tooth flosser which gave up the ghost at least a year ago.

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