Originally Posted by IvanMC

I'm going to gorge myself on meat and some scrumptious ice cream. I might guzzle down some meagre amounts of booze afterwards, but it's BBQ, at Xmas, which is paramount; then we'll see if there's enough room left for the aforesaid drinks. Xmas is beyond amazing; snow and whatnot is non-existent here: we'll cool down on a terrace on a balmy night, meat, and the family falling out over politics.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.