bookmark_borderAcceptance

I can’t help it.

It’s not my fault.

I try and fight it, honest I do. I do my best but.. well.. I am but a man, there is only so much I can do. Normally I can resist, I mean it’s not like I’ve not had practice at this sort of thing and I’ve tried, god help me, I’ve tried.

Alas, I can fight not more. I have succumbed.

It is Christmas.

The thing is, and I may have mentioned this before, but I live with a Crimbo nutter. Take today for example, we are both have this afternoon off and while I’m not liking the fact I need to go into Glasgow to finish my Christmas shopping, Louise has CHOSEN to go into Glasgow to meet her sister and cousins, do some shopping AND she had her Christmas hat on first thing this morning in preparation. A big red hat with fluffy white trim, and matching jingle bell earrings. Mental.

She’s so bad she gets excited when she hears the sleigh bells at the start of the Coca Cola adverts…

So, faced with the deluge of Christmasyness I encounter in my own home there is little I can do but smile and admit that yeah, I quite like this time of year as well. Yes it’s all a bit trite and silly but sometimes you need those things in your life. Regardless, it’s worth it to see the whopping big grin that comes over the face of my beloved when she spies an especially nice Christmas tree.

Yes, I admit it. I like this time of year, the lead up to Christmas and the festivities that are on the horizon.

Although ask me later this afternoon, whilst I’m wading through idiots and numpties, being thumped in the shins with bags and generally navigating the quickest path to the two shops I need to visitm and you may get a different response.

Admit it, you like this time of year as well. Don’t you.

bookmark_borderCondoms

Imagine if all major retailers started making their own condoms and kept the same tag-line…

  • Sainsbury condoms – Making life taste better.
  • Tesco condoms – Every little helps.
  • Nike condoms – Just do it.
  • Peugeot condoms – The ride of your life.
  • Galaxy condoms – Why have rubber when you can have silk.
  • KFC condoms – Finger licking good.
  • Minstrels condoms – Melt in your mouth, not your hands.
  • Safeway condoms – Lightening the load.
  • Abbey national condoms – Because life is complicated enough.
  • Coca Cola condoms – The real thing.
  • Ever ready condoms – Keeps going and going.
  • Pringles condoms – Once you pop, you can’t stop.
  • Burger king condoms – Home of the whopper.
  • Goodyear condoms – For a longer ride go wide.
  • FCUK condoms – No comment required.
  • Muller light condoms – So much pleasure, but where’s the pain.
  • Halfords condoms – We go the extra mile.
  • Royal mail condoms – I saw this and thought of you.
  • Andrex condoms – Soft, strong and very very long.
  • Renault condoms – Size really does matter.
  • Ronseal condoms – Does exactly what it says on the tin.
  • Ronseal quick-drying condoms – Its dry and waterproof in 30 minutes.
  • Domestos condoms – Gets right under the rim (puhleease).
  • Heineken condoms – reaches parts that other condoms just cannot reach.
  • Carlsberg condoms – Probably the best condoms in the world.

A little out of date but raised a smile here (pun intended!).

bookmark_borderDon't worry

I never sleep well when Louise isn’t there. Doubly so tonight.

So a quick thank you to Walkers for their Sensation range of crisps (Oven Roasted Chicken and Thyme at the moment), the Coca Cola company for finally giving the UK Diet Vanilla Coke, and Masterfoods for relaunching the dark Mars bar.

Yes folks, I’m comforting eating as I can’t sleep.