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

[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.