Oh, a precarious thematic... I must admit, that I really hate all these electric lights. Where I live now, it's a bit better (o.k., by the extreme high energy-prices this years maybe a lot of people have reduced that), but I had neighbours before, which had illuminated their house simila as Chevy Chase in "Christmans Vacations".
A bit precarious, because my wife would like to have one or two of these lights, but in the last years, she didn't use them, because I wouldn't be amused. But I'm a good son-in-law! My mother-in-law has a few of these lights at her house. When she said "How nice they are! What a lovely christmas-mood!" etc. pp, I'm answering always with a polite "Hrrmphh" or something like that. To avoid getting problems with my wife I don't say more.


But at the Christmas evening I'm always nagging about the electric candles at the tree. Only with real candles it's a real christmas-tree.


I have several friends (mainly K70-fans) all over the world, but from the closer family only one uncle is emigrated. Not really far away, just to Brussels.
I would be interested to visit a former school-friend of my father, she also had invited us. But this a a time ago. Actually it's better to forget the trip. She owns a farm in Zimbabwe.