.......well I dont like hum bugs...but I do like Chocolate Eclaires!!

Ok........MOAN TIME!!!!

Mum!!!
God Bless her little Olbas Oil covered hanky!!!...Decided it would be great fun to drag me around town today on a last minuite shopping trip which included, Primark, the Pound shop, TK Max (I actually enjoyed that one because I got some nice Ecco boots) Wilkinsons, Debhanams, and Beatties!! PHEW!!!! She might be 75 but she can out shop me anyday!! Now I absolutly detest crowds so during a phone call early this morning I suggested we meet up at 9am at Primark, but Mum said no becuase she can't use her bus pass untill 10am, so she would have to pay, so I agreed to 10am. With it being just a few days away from Christmas the town centre soon got packed out with chav's, kids, prams, mobility scooters, and genrally all the pushing and shoving and barging about that ususaly goes on when town is at its busy, but this was madness!! Two of my bigest "room 101's" are HUGE prams and mobillity scooters! Supermarket trollies fall into this catogory for me too! For all 3 I belive folks should have to take a driving test!!!!! Honestly!! & Piped Chirstmas music in every shop grates my nerves too!! Yes!!! We all know its Christmas but do we realy have to listen to the same "best of" Chirstmas album over and over again in every shop we go in? Its not a bit of wonder that folks like me of a certain age realy do go all bah humbug this time of year! Also how the heck has Woolworths managed to clear their shelves so quickly when their so called "sale" was nothing more than a 10 % off if your lucky, debarcle! ...I went in our Woolies today and there was almost nothing on the shelves!! BUT they were still selling the Dr Who Micro Universe packs for £9.99!! I must admit though, that was all they had left!......AND Northampton dosent even have a real Christmas tree this year!! Instead we have somthing that resembles a giant green traffic cone with things stuck on it! Surely our council is not so hard up that they can't even aford a real tree?.....AND while I am having a moan, Derek commented on the fact that this is the 3 rd year we have not had a card from his Auntie Annie in Donegal, Ireland...He mentioned it as he went through today's post this evening after he came home from work, and stood counting on his fingers just how many years since we last had a card from her. Now the lack of a card is a very long story but to cut it short Auntie Annie (Derek's Mums sister) who was always very regular with her Chirstmas cards, stopped sending us one, abruptly, after Auntie Kitty died and left Derek a "substantial" chunk of her money in her will!!! Since this happened we have not heard anything from Dereks realitives who live in Ireland, but this is just plain simple jealousy! In reality it was Derek and I who cared for Auntie Kitty in her final years and even when she eventually went into a home because she had altzimers (like my Nanna) we always visted her every week and basicaly Derek was her only living relative who gave a hoot about her! Since her death Derek and I have been compleatly cut off from his Mums family becuase of the will...Now the lack of a Chirstmas card is realy sad!! But for some people the true spirit of Chistmas is over-ridden by jealousy, hate and lack of forgiveness! and what make it even more sad, is that these people freely call themselves "Christians"...???.....emmmm...I think not...
Now with all this off my chest, I should feel better....well I promise I will after a hot bath and some Port.........
.....And I just had a parcel arrive from Egypt!
Its tablets for my nerves!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a sad world we live in!