It’s Christmas eve, apparently.

It always makes me feel vaguely resentful of the universe that Christmas Day just turns out to be another day, pretty much like any other. I mean, with all the buildup you get and the months of decorations and annoying music in shops and stress and fuss and bother, you’d expect something monumentally spectacular to happen when you awake on Christmas morn; but it doesn’t – there’s no fanfare or fireworks or anything like that – it’s just another grey, soggy winter’s day.

Not that I’m totally bereft of Christmas cheer, mind. I’ve been looking forwards to seeing my family again for a while, and I like presents, a good roaring fire and crap telly as much as anyone else. It’s just that because we’re conditioned by shops and the media and society in general into hyping Christmas so much, it’s always a let down when you wake up and the world is still pretty much the same as it was the day before.

Anyway. I’m going to drive to Nottingham in a couple of hours, and I’ll be out of internet land for a bit, so I’ll wish you a Merry Christmas now, and you can hang onto it until tomorrow and feel merry then.

Merry Christmas 🙂

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