Festive Note - Nativity Plays

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" 
<kcawte at n...> wrote:
> 
>> It's not Scroogelike. I adore Christmas, but I wish people would 
wait until
> December. Santa's Grotto opened last week at the local shopping 
centre.
> Every shop is playing Xmas music and has decorations up - I'm 
going to be
> heartily sick of it by Xmas and have now scratched shops off the 
list of
> places I'm job hunting (because I'd be forced to go after their 
audio system
> with a hammer after a couple of days of constant Christmas music 
and being
> sacked is bad)
> 
> K

That's nothing - I saw my first Christmas display in a Newcastle 
shop in September.  I like Christmas too, but I'm blowed if I'm 
gonna get so overspent on it that I won't be able to pay for it 
until next July. 

Here's a short pet hate list:

People who boast in October that they've done all their Christmas 
shopping (including the turkey) and once they wrap up all their 
presents (by end of October) they are sorted.

Shops with large displays of "gifts" - by which I mean stuff that no 
one in their right mind would want or buy - like beer tankards "for 
the golfer in the family"  What the?  Surely the golfer in the 
family wants new golf clubs or suchlike.  Kitchen aprons for men 
with "World's Best Dad" on them or that sort of thing.

The inevitable productions of really crap records by the likes of 
Robbie Williams - which people who should know better buy in droves 
and make number 1 so that the rest of us have to listen to it 
everywhere we go.

Obscure "My Book of the Year" lists (there's one today in the UK 
Daily Telegraph) which include pious "I'm better read and more 
intellectual than thou" nominations from famous people and there's 
never a mention of any book you've read or enjoyed.

The appearance in the shops of magazines which tell you how to 
provide a show off victorian Christmas, have endless recipe's for 
obscure ways of doing brussel sprouts, when all you need to do is 
boil the buggers.

People who live near me who have decided to decorate the entire 
outside of their houses with fibre optic lights, meaning I have to 
close my curtains or risk a migraine or seizure if I look at the 
display.  And this in November yet.

I'll get my festive spirit going soon, I dare say, I just wish it 
didn't feel like a very long exam - written and practical.

June