Anytime will do! (My Top 10 Christmas Wishlist)

Member Name: Whitehorse

Product:	My Top 10 Christmas Wishlist
Date:	14/11/01 (72 review reads)
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Advantages: A time to get together, A time to dream

Disadvantages: Consumerism

Oh for goodness sake – how can it possibly be so near to THAT time of year again when we’ve only just got rid of the Easter eggs? I did notice Xmas cards for sale in Pounstretcher somewhere around August but I managed to successfully blot the whole thing out of my head until now.

This is me at my most selfish, my most wishful, my most hopeful – well we are all allowed to dream sometimes aren’t we and I think I should honour my dreams in this list. Afterall – it is said that giving voice to something can bring it to you – Mmm must be careful what I wish for then!

By the way – these are in no order of importance – all or any will do. Please take it as read that I want world peace, health and happiness for all.

A RECORD PRODUCER (that bears no resemblance to Simon whatever his name is on Pop Idols!)
Come on now there must be someone out there who is willing to take it as read that this album I’ve just about finished will sell. Okay so I’m not eligible to be a pop idol (thank the Goddess I’m far too old!) but I can string some lyrics together and sing. Alternatively if I am far too scary to go on stage then my music will make great film music – only don’t use it for the washing up or Asda ads because I’d have to render myself voiceless for the next twenty years as penance.
I’ll tie in a PUBLISHER with this wish in the same vain as the above – spelling mistake intentional by the way. I want the “I have to meet my agent” meetings. Yes I do know that I have to get the book written first! What just the one book?

A COTTAGE IN THE COUNTRY
How’s a girl like me meant to get her inspiration surrounded by concrete? This is the dream I’ve had since childhood when I’d badger my Dad into getting me the Sunday Times so I could look at the property section. I hasten to add I never read the paper itself – al
l those poor trees! If I close my eyes I can see my cottage. Lavender grows underneath the windows and sometimes when the wind blows from the right direction I can smell the sea. At night I hear waves in the distance as they wash across the shore. The fields billow around me – dotted with cattle and sheep. No foot and mouth in my dream place. The cottage is ramshackle – plenty of space to make my mark and touch the mark of others. The back garden has a wall around it so I am safe and secure and private. It’s a wild garden, with space for the wild creatures. Intricate Spider’s webs hang across the wall where honeysuckle and ivy grow. Wild rose and clematis weave their way along the west wall and bird nest in the old oak. At the front of the cottage is an ancient willow tree – a curtain of branches create a quiet circle within.
Inside the cottage an agar warms the kitchen and open fire breathes flickering warmth into the whole space. I am curled with cats and dogs in an armchair – smiling just because I’m home.

A HORSE
Well of course. The dream goes…published book, country cottage, horse. That’s all the dream has ever been. I partial one outa three aint bad. I’ve been horse obsessed since I was 5 and no I have and never will grow out of it. I don’t need a horse who’s a fantastic showjumper – I just want one who needs a home, who likes to amble through the fields at dawn, who needs love – a rescue horse in other words. I’m not interested in the cup hunting, fox chasing, show brigade. Someone told me today that there are new forest ponies being sold off – having to restrain myself! Oi Santa – take note – need cottage and field and stable with this one!

SOME CASH PLEASE
Around a million will do although I’ll settle for a bit less if necessary. I’ve lived for years in virtual poverty so I think I’ve done my penance no
w. Will it change my life? Uh huh – absolutely! It would be nice to own a pair of socks without holes in or to fly off for a weekend in Iceland to see the Northern lights. It would be wonderful to be able to catch taxi’s when I’m scared to walk home alone – even better to live somewhere where I have no need to be afraid. I long to travel the length and breadth of the US but having a dog means I cannot go anywhere for any length of time so at least this way I could go away for a couple of weeks every few months and pay someone trustworthy to look after her. Money would mean I could take hundreds of courses because there’s so much to learn and so little time. Money would mean a season ticket to the theatre and taking in every West End show I’ve ever seen. Money would maybe mean intensive hypnotherapy treatment for stagefright so maybe I could take those acting classes I always wanted to do (okay – so maybe I could do that without the cash but hey that’s my excuse). Money would mean I could have a cooker that actually works and carpets that go up to the edge of the room to keep the heat in in winter – well actually it’d be wooden flooring and those fantastic fake animal print rugs that you just want to fall into :-) Money would mean no having to be stingy at Xmas and buying my friends things that they will love – I hate having to limit what I’m going to spend on them. We all know that we don’t have to buy anything for each other because we love each other – but I still want to treat them, to show I love them and appreciate them and want to see them smile. Money would mean I could walk into an animal sanctury and pay off all their bills for a year. Money would mean I could bribe Derren Brown into showing me some of his psychological secrets because he fascinates me!

A SEAT ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE
I can think of no greater adventure than going out into space and seeing the beaut
y of the stars and our planet from a different vantage point. I have been fascinated by space all my life. My great aunt used to be married to a man who worked at Cape Kennedy and I was obsessed with space travel and he would obligingly send little newspaper clippings and booklets from the centre. Of course my space time adventure bears more resemblance to Star Trek NG than the current big suit and dry food scenario but I’d put up with anything just to look down upon the Earth and see her spinning through space.

A WEEKS TEACHING BY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING –
Sandra Ingerman who is a spiritual heroine of mine. Shamanic practitioner and general all round inspiration.
Carl Sagan because he’s a visionary genius and I want to know how his mind works.
Stephen Hawkins – again because of brilliance
Any good artist who can teach me to paint!
Jools Holland or Tori Amos to teach me funky piano ways!

A TIME MACHINE
So I can: -
Go back and see the moment I was born
Meet Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong
See the Earth before humans evolved.

FOR XMAS TO GO BACK TO IT’S ORGINAL MEANING –
As in a celebration of the return of the Sun at Solstice. SUN stands STILL and in that moment we stand still and reflect and remember and look forward to a new light and a New Year. Or if you are of another faith – for whatever this time of year means to you. No more people getting into debt to buy presents that’ll be discarded within the week or people feeling lonely or walking the streets with nowhere else to go.

WORLD AWARENESS
That we are all one race. We all have red blood and hearts and minds. We are all here for a purpose and the Earth can sustain us if only we treat her and each other with respect. I don’t want to see any more children starving or people fighting or lands wiped out with hate. I want us to look into each other’s eyes and know that we can t
rust each other implicitly and without question

FOR ONE XMAS WITH MY GRANDAD
My Grandad died on Xmas eve when I was two and his last words to anyone were “I can’t wait to see her face in the morning”. He was referring to me and the little red peddle car he had bought me. He never got to see my face and I don’t remember that day. I only have one memory of him – sitting at the breakfast table eating boiled eggs. Well Grandad, I hope you are there looking down on me somewhere because I still think of you every year at Xmas and wonder if you can see my face.

Okay – that’s the wishful list – how about the real list?

A cooker that works
Books – hundreds of ‘em – see my wish list at Amazon ;-)
A new stereo because the one I have sounds like they are playing under water (thank the Gods that computers can play cd’s!)
Socks!
Earrings because I have come to that daft stage in life where I have ONE of everything
Perfume from the body shop because I just finished the bottle I had
A huge cuddly hot water bottle – something like Pooh or Tigger because in the dead of winter 3 quilts two blankets and a dog just doesn’t do it!
Clothes – because I’ve just discovered a fantastic hippy dress – hint, hint.
One very large bottle of good whisky because at my pace of drinking I’ll have it ‘til next Xmas :-)
A Hug because a hug can sustain more than food, wine and and merriment ever can.

BLESSINGS FOR YULE – MAY YOURS BE FULL OF LAUGHTER AND LIGHT.

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