Re: Christmas Decorations.
Reading all of the above it seems that once you get older attitudes to Christmas change.
Some changes are evident in the greetings card shops as well. (Where did they come from, anyway? My local Asda shopping Mall (horrible word) has three
They’re like candle shops. Ten years ago they didn’t exist; now they’re infesting every shopping mall from Bodmin to Bannockburn. How many stuffed Garfields and heart-shaped balloons do we need?
Why can’t we just buy our greetings cards from the limited display next to the jars of sweets in the local newspaper shop, just like we used to do? With the price written on the back in pencil, which we always forgot to remove?)
Anyway, I needed to pick up a Get Well Soon card for a recovering alcoholic, ( I kid you not)and I saw a Christmas card inscribed: “To Dad and Partner”. Says a lot that, about the way we live our modern lives I suppose.
On the surface, it’s a heartfelt sentiment. Underneath is confusion, bitterness and tears. I don’t know why they just don’t be honest and make Cards dedicated
“To Dad and that Slut with the Loose Knickers from Number 62”.
Or, to be
fair, “To Mum and the 25-year-old Somalian tribesman whose mud hut you fled to last year. Enjoy the goats. And the used spectacles No! I didn’t see that one!
I really don’t understand the 21st Century, I had problems with the 20th. The trouble is there is no bloody alternative
I am a 73 Yr old white male, ( am I allowed to say that?) for most of my adult life there have been two constants:
1. Africa "needs" money, especially at Xmas.
2. Israelis and Palestinians hate each other.
apparently nowadays I'm responsible for both.
....and breath
Sorry I went off at a tangent there...