It's Christmas Eve!

[conuly]

yay!

And it turns out that the clock starts ticking on loaned kindle books when they're lent, not when they're downloaded, so now I need to ask some people to send them again. Boo. Amazon, why? WHY?

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Comments

[gale_storm]

In what respect do you mean? In that some people really like them, but most people don't, so the ones that don't just re-gift the fruitcakes they'd not at all wanted, so the fruitcakes merely get passed onwards until they make it back to the ones who'd given them in the beginning?

If mince pies are like fruitcakes in this way, then I'll have to admit to not much liking mince pies, although I do like many fruitcakes, so I'll need only to wait until someone with opposite tastes to mine can trade. Or I'll just orderr fruitcakes from Amazon! :-D

[conuly]

Fruitcakes are supposed to last forever, like dwarf bread but with more alcohol.

[gale_storm]

Dwarf bread? Is that one of the LotR things, similar to waybread, the sort made by Elves that would last for months, so it was good for eating while on your way to wherever?

[conuly]

I'm thinking of the Discworld version....

[gale_storm]

Ah, that's why I don't know dwarf bread: I think I read only the first of the Discworld books.