h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As my wife's having a birthday celebration this weekend and have invited some of her family and friends to attend, I thought it would be the natural time to start giving out some Christmas cards and the perfect way to save money on the extortionate price of stamps. So I printed out a score copies of the Christmas crossword to distribute. I then went up in the attic and got the Christmas card bag out of the Christmas decorations box – this contains all the Christmas cards that we hadn't sent last year, the odd ones left in the bottom of last year's multipack boxes.
So with the cards and crosswords ready I said to my wife that we could write Christmas cards to her family and friends now, and thus save money on stamps as well as all the hassle of looking up postcodes etc. Yet she wasn't impressed, and said, 'I haven't decided what Christmas cards we're sending out yet'. I was generally assuming they'd be ones that contains words like 'Merry Christmas' somewhere in the middle and have pictures of such things as , , , , , , , etc on the front. The basic concept hasn't changed much since Victorian times (although the Victorians themselves sold very weird Christmas cards, of such things as genuine teeth, bacon, giant stag beetles etc.)

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Very sensible idea, even if it is just a tad early to think about cards - the cost of stamps soon mounts up... Do you have a Scout Post in your area? The Wirral does, so that saves a little bit of as well as donating to charity.

I’m sure your wife will have a wonderful round number birthday party

As I don’t know what you mean by 'a Scout Post', I'm guessing the answer is no, and as of h2g2's Scout most interested in postboxes, I'm now wondering where I'm going to be posted…

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It's this type of Scout A17719527 Their postboxes are just cardboard boxes but they deliver people's local Christmas Cards and the money from the stamps goes to charity

Oh, them – splitters!

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