the sleigh ride starts!
A weekend spent putting up the Christmas tree, marzippaning and icing the Christmas cake and getting stuck into the first of this years’ viewings of Miracle on 34th Street and Elf (with Muppet Christmas Carol and It’s A Wonderful Life to follow this weekend, courtesy of the Prince Charles Cinema’s ever-reliable December programme) has finally brought about the gradual segue into the Christmas state from just plain stressed and knackered, and a relief it is too.
The crap weather (not that much of a consideration normally, but a monumental pain in the arse for anybody having to travel further than to Waitrose and back) and general dourness of November is (hopefully) past, I have got used to having to put on lights if I want to do anything beyond watch TV after 3pm and the approaching longer-than-usual break is well within sight!
An unusual amount of tedious badgering for services not on offer and days/times when I don’t work has surprised me this year, and has (predictably) been responded to with mixed levels of civility depending on the variables. If it saves time, let everyone be assured that if I’m not that desperate for your money in April or August, I’m not that desperate for it now, either. I only bring it up after three such occasions in the last week, which is extremely rare for me even allowing for the weaponised non-reading stance of the Adultwork users. Just find somebody else, ffs.
That aside, between tonight’s long-anticipated trip to see Prodigy back at Brixton (as much fun as ever, but exhausting) and tomorrow’s carol service over at the Barbican I will be busy getting all my last minute jobs done before packing up for the Christmas break, so whilst I’ll be here I will not be available ‘NOW’ any more than I am the remainder of the time and the day is starting to fill up already. Saturday morning; possible but unlikely.
Instead of a Song Of The Week, the time has arrived to enjoy my favourite YouTube video of the year instead. Despite the appearance of the 28 Years Later trailer last week, Nyango Star has won the internet.
More soon! I can’t be sure exactly how soon, but I’ll be here…
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