Bah humbug
Ed had quite a lot to say about the traditional Christmas experience — so here are some moments, to amuse anyone who is feeling ever so slightly worn. ‘A tin of wienies & some french ginger & chips would be my ideal Christmas dinner… This house has become a firetrap owing to about 1000 enormous hideous christmas cards … there isnt a square inch that hasn’t its candle bursting out of a poinsettia or blueish ghouls peering at something in a cradle, and masses of wrapping paper. … quite a few fetus’s dressed as weeny choir boys wise men etc & red wax candles tangled with holly leaves & church windows … tomorrow the cards go & what they must all have cost, which you might buy about 5 bottles of gin, as these huge horrors are very expensive. I have gone to bed as there is a little party to play games & guess things and I have guessers Block just now. … I have taken to whiskey.’