[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-happy-christmas-from-vern-and-lettuce":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"For the last ten years or so, I've always prided myself on printing up my own Christmas card, and this year I failed entirely. So apologies that you haven't got one! I made this little comic to fill the gap:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vernlettuce_xmas10-4614c6cfb2.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nVern and Lettuce are still driving around on their Christmas tractor tour, and I know they've returned from \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/357718.html\">their trip to Paris\u003C/a> because yesterday I got this photo of them from Sam Reeve on snowy \u003Cb>Dartmoor\u003C/b>. Yesterday was a big day; Sam had his first-ever ride in a tractor! He correctly spotted Vern and Lettuce's as a Massey Ferguson, and the photo shows the tractor of the local farmer who gave him a lift. \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://thefleecestation.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/vern-and-lettuce-head-off-to-the-farm/\">Click here if you'd like to download your own tractor to colour, cut and paste!\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://thefleecestation.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/vern-and-lettuce-head-off-to-the-farm/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/samreeve_tractor-1e8ba62807.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nLast night Stuart and I met up with friends who ran an art gallery with us when I first moved to Britain. It was a huge job and had us doing all sorts of odd tasks, including sanding floors, bartending, making sure an artist didn't get hypothermia while lying in a bathtub full of baked beans, evading a bomb threat, and yanking naked artists out of the high-street front window. Surreal times.\\r\n\\r\nFour of us walked back on a long dark pathway going over the top of the hill by a certain famous cemetery and Eddie and Caroline pointed out a hole in the fence around the reservoir. We clambered through, slithered up a slope and came out onto a huge snowy plateau with the best view I've ever seen of London. It was magic.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/reservoir1-5802046693.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more A couple more pics under the cut!-->\\r\nThe path by the cemetery should have been dark and scary, but the snow and full moon turned everything silver.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/reservoir2-a9540a0d60.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/reservoir5-1262e7209d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/christmas\">Christmas posts from years past...\u003C/a>","2010-12-23T09:02:00.000Z","happy-christmas-from-vern-and-lettuce",[],"happy christmas from vern and lettuce!",1776628719400]