Christmas, Sales, Boxing Day Hunts and a Happy New Year
Christmas is a funny old time as when it actually arrives, there is a general feeling that it is over the instant the big day dawns. As soon as the wrapping paper is in the bin, the adverts on TV are suddenly for holidays and mega, biggest ever sales at DFS, and the radio stations have reverted back to normality after a month of Slade, Wizard, East 17 and the Pogues. Boxing Day always brings news feeds of the masses knocking down the doors of ...
Christopher Jefferies – A Tale For Christmas
I watched a brilliant two parter with my youngest son, Harry, last week, called the 'Lost honour of Christopher Jefferies' written by Peter Morgan and brilliantly acted by Jason Watkins who played the part of Jefferies in mesmeric style. If you didn't see it, you may remember the snowy Christmas of 2010, when Jefferies, an innocent man, faced unbelievable trial by useless policing and vindictive media purely because he was an eccentric ...
Christmas Nostalgia
I was in Sainsbury's yesterday, picking up some Christmas booze for my clients when I got interrupted by some old chap who, at a guess, was in his seventies. "When I was young, me and my dad used to pick up our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and that was that. Now it starts in October." He then went on to say something along the lines of being lucky if in his day he got a clip around the ear and a bag of chestnuts for a gift. Quite why ...
The Miserable Days of Nativity Plays!
Because of the hectic schedule in my work and domestic life at the moment, I have not really had much time to get in to the spirit of Christmas yet, or even take part in the annual ordeal that is writing Christmas cards. So when I drove past a school this evening to see cars spilling out on to the side roads and queues of parents snaking towards the main hall area, it brought back memories of when a decade or so of my Decembers were dictated ...
Britain Braces Itself For Worst Daily Express Weather Headlines For 100 Years!
Britain could be in line for it worst winter of Daily Express headlines for over 100 years, experts have warned. Brian Scandal from the on-line tabloid scaremongering organisation, Expresscheck.com, believes that all the signs are pointing towards a winter of Express winter headlines like never seen before. "The signs are not good. We had our first Arctic winter headlines in September and they have persisted through the Autumn and into ...