The One Armed Bandit

Just look at this. I caught this little fellow making off with all the Santa presents this morning. As slippery as an eel, he made good his escape while I was pre-occupied with the camera settings. Let's hope he doesn't return next year. At least this time I managed to scare him off before he could load up all the goodies into his swag bag!

Actually he is a little Christmas ornament, an absolutely dreadful little thing, which we picked up in a job lot of junk in the market in Montmartre. So ugly and awful that we just had to keep him. When he first arrived home with us had had two arms and two ski poles. Now where the missing one has gone is a complete mystery which we are unlikely ever to solve.

A Very Happy Christmas to all my good Blip friends out there. I trust you are having a wonderful day with lots of goodies in your own personal swag bags.