• Normally on Christmas Day Mrs GOF cheerfully decorates, cooks, drinks more red wine than is strictly required to reap any health benefits, and [...]

  The Summer of my Discontent.

  January 4, 2013
• Well no.  I refuse to be drawn into the rapidly filling sewers of political correctness.  It’s HAPPY CHRISTMAS, and if the Christians of [...]

  Happy..ummm…errr…Whatever?

  December 23, 2012
• Dear Friends, Hello again to you all at this special time of the year. Golly gosh doesn’t time fly. It has been a difficult year for Our [...]

  Reverend GOF’s Christmas Newsletter

  December 4, 2012
• Dear Friends, Oh my goodness how time does fly.  One whole year. It feels like only yesterday when it was Christmas, that blessed and holy time [...]

  The GOF Family Christmas letter 2011

  December 12, 2011

• Some moments in one’s life which are devoid of any redeeming worthiness can often have blame shifted somewhere else. To intervention of the [...]

  D. V. Crankshaft Esq.; Whereabouts unknown

  January 3, 2011
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  GOF’s Twelve Days of Christmas

  November 20, 2010
• (This is the GOF family letter drafted for inclusion with our 2009 Christmas cards to family and friends. We didn't send it because we [...]

  A letter never sent

  January 20, 2010
• because he got upset by this little bit of misfortune in my driveway, swore at me and the reindeer, then moved on to the neighbours place. Look [...]

  Santa didn’t get to my place

  December 27, 2009

• Elmer and GOF have some work to do (It is very late in my day, and accordingly this may well not be the finest piece of literature ever [...]

  Where’s a gun when you need one?

  December 20, 2009