For years, the secret to a successful Jones family Christmas had involved pacifying the adults with rum (Martha couldn't manage the fruitcake quite yet, but she'd become adept at slipping the leftover rum into the eggnog).
This was somewhat depressing when you thought about it, which was why Martha didn't really do that.
"Humanoid," she amended. "And possibly extended to anthropomorphic snowmen and sentient reindeer with glowing noses."
Obviously, Martha immediately scooped the kitten into her arms, wrapping her mum's knitting around it. "Aww, poor cat! You shouldn't be out in the snow like this." And meanwhile, someone perused the list of Christmas tropes.
((ooc: :D Here you go! My new life's ambition is to be Paul Cornell.))
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Date: 2009-12-19 09:09 pm (UTC)This was somewhat depressing when you thought about it, which was why Martha didn't really do that.
"Humanoid," she amended. "And possibly extended to anthropomorphic snowmen and sentient reindeer with glowing noses."
Obviously, Martha immediately scooped the kitten into her arms, wrapping her mum's knitting around it. "Aww, poor cat! You shouldn't be out in the snow like this."
And meanwhile, someone perused the list of Christmas tropes.((ooc: :D Here you go! My new life's ambition is to be Paul Cornell.))