{"id":11128,"date":"2022-10-18T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/christmas-tale\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:36:54","slug":"christmas-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/christmas-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Tale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night before Christmas&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The cat was getting drunk on mulled wine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/correll_full1.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (6)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Santa, all ready for Christmas, took a bit of time off for some festive golf&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/animade_full1.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (5)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;before heading out to deliver presents! <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately however, Rudolph wasn&#8217;t having any of it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xmasgif_500px_green.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (7)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Santa had to resort to more creative ways to deliver the presents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/san_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (8)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5850\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/layzell_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (9)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ignition_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (15)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he&#8217;d been working out all year in preparation for the holidays<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5842\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/berry_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (17)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which meant that on Christmas morning, people everywhere fuelled by cups of tea and warm mince pies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/genzmer_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (11)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;could get down to some really important business\u00a0&#8211; opening presents!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5847\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mathieson_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (12)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before heading out to play in the snow<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowangel_500.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (13)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5845\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowman_500.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (14)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leaving drunk cat to cure it&#8217;s &#8220;mulled wine hangover&#8221; with some festive telly and lots of Christmas pudding<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5843\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/correll_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (16)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SEASONS GREETINGS EVERYONE!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hyndman_full.gif?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (10)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"stag-section stag-divider stag-divider--dashed\">\n<p>And just because it&#8217;s Christmas time (and because Christmas is on a Thursday), we&#8217;ve decided to throw it back &#8211; waaaaaaaaay back!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5857\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5857 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/71891_10151216716462301_1832186973_n.jpg?resize=960%2C724&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (2)\" width=\"960\" height=\"724\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lloyd and Poppa Lloyd!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5856\" style=\"width: 1379px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1053237_10151693453109784_524635884_o.jpg?resize=1000%2C1485&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (3)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaya and his little bro!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5860\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_my4jfzwgMM1qdmnt7o1_1280.gif?resize=1000%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MERRY CHRISTMAS GIF NEON SIGNS\" width=\"1000\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5855\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yaya-and-Lloyd-Hand-Luggage-Only-Christmas-Hats-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C669&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Christmas Tale, Santa, Father Christmas (4)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yaya-and-Lloyd-Hand-Luggage-Only-Christmas-Hats-s.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yaya-and-Lloyd-Hand-Luggage-Only-Christmas-Hats-s.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Festive gifs courtesy of www.christmasgifs.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night before Christmas&#8230;. The cat was getting drunk on mulled wine&#8230; Santa, all ready for Christmas, took a bit of time off for some festive golf&#8230; &#8230;before heading out to deliver presents! Unfortunately however, Rudolph wasn&#8217;t having any of it! So Santa had to resort to more creative ways to deliver the presents&#8230; &hellip; Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[852,927,40,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-home","category-travel","category-travel-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}