Normally about this time of year, just as Amazon and I are racking up the amount of email traffic more readily associated with besotted lovers separated by continents, my credit card company stop my account "due to unusual behaviour".
That'll be me buying similar quantities of stuff from similar vendors every Christmas since they invented internet shopping. Possibly in response to the same credit card company offering me the chance of winning some wonderful prize if I use their card for all my purchases.
Jings, it's enough to make a reindeer spit.
Touch wood, things have been a bit sensible so far this year, though the very act of blogging that, makes me suspect that the hand of Fate is about to clip me around the ear.
But this is possibly the best bit of Christmas for me. After the choosing, after the purchasing and before the giving... wrapping!
Man, present, paper and sellotape in perfect harmony. And for that added bit of kitsch, listening to the The Waitresses' "Christmas rapping" at the same time. Perhaps they need to adjust my medication.
On the subject of festive tunes, I guess my fave has to be "I believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake, bearing in mind that my formative years were heavily dominated by ELP. Then there's that most Marmite of Christmas songs, Jona Lewie's "Stop the Cavalry", but I couldn't begin to rationalise why it appeals to me so much.
Well, with less than a week to go before the big day, things are shaping up nicely. Bring on the winter solstice.
1 comment:
Well that's another amusing blog - I only came on-line to do some internet banking (that's with a 'b') and couldn't resist looking to see if you've recently blogged. Ooo dear it rather sounds like I'm stalking. BTW - Mr A Lee was jolly good last night - didn't need any of the expected/hoped support. At times I was mesmorised by his caressing of the fretboard.
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