Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’d like to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

The Weirdest Thing I Loved As A Child

When I first saw today’s topic, my mind went blank. Not because I couldn’t think of anything, but because too many things came to mind that my brain short-circuited and I couldn’t even remember my name, never mind the weird things I loved as a child… but…

I did think of something, and I have written about it before – in the form of a non-fiction narrative which you can read here, if you’d like.

Now, I love Christmas. You might even say that I’m obsessed with it. I love the season, the holiday, all the Christmas accoutrements, but when I was small, my favourite thing in the world was… Christmas lights.

When I was around 5, I was so obsessed with Christmas lights that I’d beg my poor parents all the year round to put up the Christmas decorations. Naturally, they always refused, although My dad did try to fashion me some colourful lights made out of flashlights and sweet wrappers. But they weren’t quite the same.

So, one day, in the middle of summer, I decided to take matters into my own hands and put them up myself.

In the middle of the night, while everyone slept, I dragged our battered and broken artificial tree from the cupboard under the stairs then I spent a while unfolding branches and wrapping lights around them.

When I was done, I plugged the lights in and lay under the tree in the middle of the living room… which is where my parents found me when they woke up.

Let me tell you, they were not pleased at all, and that was the end of our family’s tradition of keeping the decorations under the stairs.

I still love Christmas lights. I think there’s nothing better than sitting in the living room on a dark night with the Christmas tree just glowing away. I used to try and recapture my youth by trying to find the same kinds of lights they had in the 80s and 90s (the kind with blue, green, yellow, pink, orange and white bulbs), but they don’t make ’em like they used to. The new LED ones are great – they’re bright and beautiful, but they just aren’t the same…

Anyway, this was post 35! I’m looking forward to reading about some of the weirdest things you all loved as kids. I bet there’re some fascinating stories from this week’s topic!

Thanks, as always, for stopping by to read my post. It really does mean the world.

Until next time,

George

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