Santa: Key Performance Indicators

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Please indicate, with brief reference to Key Performance Indicators, whether Santa has been good to you this year.*











*All information will be treated in the strictest confidence. And not, say, get lost on the way to Iowa. Honest.

[dee]

I got a dodgy umbrella that changes colours from my sister - what a wit, or is that twit! (see it on the I want one of those website)

Got the ususal smellies that I don't use, so they get recycled next year. Funniest present was from my aunt to my mum - it was a size 12 jumper and for my neice who's 29 she brought her some anti-aging cream - so there was a swap there.

Apart from that I must have been good (I ended up with 2 Freeview boxes!) and am happy with what the fella in red left me

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Umm, let me see...

Swanky black-leather swivel chair
*ticks box for: goes well with hollowed-out volcano and plans for world domination*

Dangerous Book for Boys
*ticks box for: overgrown boy spotted*

Natty jumper
*ticks box for: can't have too many of them*

Bottle of the Irish stuff
*ticks box for: whiskey, good luck to ye, darling*

New computer keyboard
*ticks box for: good idea- I'd forgotten how much of a nuisance it is using the alphanumeric function for all the numbers above 4 because the old keyboard was, to use the technical phrase, buggered*

New traveling chess set
*ticks box for: bloody obvious, really*

I shall certainly use Santa's services again next year.

[seren]

Chocolate, chocolate and chocolate. This is A Good Thing.

A crocheted scarf which does, serendipitously, match a winter hat I own that I never wear, so they can both live in the drawer together.

A nice shawl thing of many colours, and I do wear those so that's OK.

From my mother, a hardback streetmap of London the size of a pocket diary. This may sound naff to you, but a) I love maps and b) a few months ago I got completely confused by the building numbering on Holborn and ended up calling my mum for help on the way to a meeting. So I am very pleased with this. Good for original-rules Mornington Crescent matches too.

Phantoms in the Brain by Dr VS Ramachandran and The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. I am devouring the former and have already lost the latter somewhere under the bed.

A blender. Because I asked for one. I like making ice cream milkshakes in it. Next year I will ask for a toasted sandwich maker. I hope to have a complete kitchen by 2012.

A 2008 calendar of old maps of the world. Told you I like maps. I love the bits where they've got it wrong, or guessed, or just have bits missing.

Some earrings. I'm not really a jewellery person, and if I were I wouldn't normally buy heart shaped things, so they will remain unworn. Thankfully they weren't bought by my boyfriend, who knows better, so this won't offend him.

I bought the DVD of both series of 15 Storeys High for my boyfriend which was really one of those gifts to yourself (he did ask for it, I was just Very Pleased to Comply). I already own the DVD of the first series, and the damn Beeb have only gone and released 1 and 2 together, no separate series 2. *rant rant rant*

And more chocolate. Oh, and some Jelly Belly beans.

Next year I plan to be somewhere far, far away from Christmas, and my gifts will be waking up to a Himalayan vista. I think that wins. Sorry.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

From my mother, a hardback streetmap of London the size of a pocket diary.

Doesn't count. Not from Santa.

But the Ramachandran and the Sacks count. Bonus points for losing one already.

[siestatime]

Santa brought my son the Doctor Who Doomsday action figures.
Doctor Who comes complete with tiny sonic screwdriver, and I spent most of Christmas afternoon dismantling the sofa and diving into the dusty depths to rescue it

It is now Super-glued into his hand

Santa brought me Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD collection, series 1-4

- and a jumper in the wrong colour and size so back it went.
Verdict - not bad. Now to see what the three blokes riding camels bring me.