常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

Santa-friendly chimney

タブロイド紙もちょっといい話を載せるクリスマス休暇。〜friendlyという用法はいろいろなところに登場しますね。(ゼミ生 カメ女)
All I want for Christmas is a chimney big enough for Santa! Boy, 6, sees his festive dreams come true as parents have new house built
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

When six-year-old Leo Park’s mother told him she was buying a brand-new house, his excitement quickly turned to anxiety.
Not only might Santa not know the address, but what if the chimney wasn’t big enough to accommodate his ample frame and bulging sack of toys?
Leo wrote a letter to builder Jeremy Paxton which said: ‘I am worried that my mummy’s house doesn’t have a big enough chimney. I think Santa will get stuck. Please can you help?’

'Tis the season to be jolly: Leo Park, six, shows his appreciation as Father Christmas is lowered into the extra-large chimney his parents had built at their home in Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire


Yesterday all his fears were allayed as Mr Paxton, who commissioned an architect and a mathematician to design the perfect Santa-friendly chimney, showed off the results at the Lower Mill Estate near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Leo and his mother Jade were guests of honour as a crane lifted a suitably plump Father Christmas up to the roof of the £750,000 four-storey property and lowered him into the Cotswold stone chimney, which goes all the way down to the sitting room.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076172/First-Santa-friendly-chimney-Leo-Park-6-sees-Christmas-dreams-come-true.html#ixzz1hPuN4Gju