Christmas time missletoe and wine - sings dear old cliff
So this is Christmas and what have you done – sings John Lennon
They said it would snow this Christmas, but instead it just kept on raining – sang I think it was Emerson Lake and Palmer but that could be totally wrong...... this christmas it actually did snow and that was lovely
The run up to christmas is nice on one hand, the fairy lights and urm the fairy lights and on another the endless spending, wrapping, shopping until your fingers ache and i do get a bit bah humbug..........and I do look at marketing strategies, after Halloween everything ends up being marked down to 20p (yipppeee the joy) then the shelves are cleared for the large tins of Quality Street, Heroes and Roses. Some shops are doing them buy one get one free at £10 each, others are £5 each and the really cheeky shops are trying to get £7.
The free instore magazines are heaving with promises of top tips for a credit crunch Christmas. I have spent the month flicking through various magazines, looking at roasted turkeys, delighted family faces, children all cosy in dressing gowns with wonder in their eyes, oh yeah and lots of adverts for three piece suites (delivered in time for Christmas). So the three kings did they follow the star to the nearest dfs? Was jesus laid in a manger, Did they think that God loved them because they could get nought per cent finance and nothing to pay for two years, before the easy repayment terms kicked in? I am cynical and the greed and excess are bad enough, but the obligation, expectation and fakeness of it all leaves me the coldest Grinch ever. This year I am working on my own Alternative Christmas and will be back to tell all very soon
Mahoo………………………..
