Do You Believe?

Do you Believe?

I believe in Father Christmas, we all do, well most of us, there are some Scrooges out there and good luck to them, no presents for them this Christmas.

There are two reasons why I believe in Father Christmas, first, it does bring out the jolliest part of me and if you think about it, where do all those presents come from? I do have one regret, at my age Christmas is coming around all too soon, almost not allowing enough time to revel in the festive joy that this time of the year brings. Secondly, only at Christmas do we go to those glorious Nativity plays and my grandson is Joseph, every time. No, not Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat but Joseph, the father of Jesus, he really believed in Christmas, some say he invented Christmas. Joseph, I mean not Alex.

I believe it was Charles Dickens who invented Christmas as we know it today. Thanks to his novel A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens is often credited with inventing winter festivities. That means we are part of that magic time as we do have Matthew Dickens as a member of our extended family and he is related to Charles. There is a school of thought that a direct line can be traced from Dickens’s fourth child right to our Matthew. Who would have thought that it does come from a reliable source, Angela, wife of said Matthew.

Went for a swim this morning, well a quick dip really as the sea temperature is now 9.7 deg C and the rain did not help. I have not had a swim for the last 4 days as our heating at home was not working. All sorted now and hopefully back to my daily swim. Angela, the wife of Matthew Dickens, messaged us about the outside and sea temperatures in Australia. Sea - 24 deg C, Air 24 deg C, much too cold to swim.

Talking of cold weather, Jeremy Clarkson is getting the cold shoulder from a number of citizens who might or might not live in the UK. He wrote in a reputable newspaper;

"At night, I'm unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her.”

In a tweet on Monday, he said: "Oh dear. I've rather put my foot in it."

He described a reference he made to a scene in Game of Thrones as "clumsy".

"I'm horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future," he said.

I am of the opinion that he should never have phrased that comment the way he did. Much better to have let her wear a sackcloth and a pair of Nike trainers, one can not expect her to walk barefoot. Also, the excrement was a little over the top, rather smelly, no, rotten tomatoes and a few bad eggs are how I would have put it. I would allow a few carefully chosen staff from the Palace to have the first throws.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64029690

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Our own Granny Susie Pie is the new face of Cadbury Chocolates, who would have thought? Merlin is taking over Cadbury World somewhere up north, on her first visit she was photographed by the media section of that fine establishment and is now adorning the wrapper of their dairy milk slab. Must admit I have always preferred Cadbury chocolates to the ravels Nestles. Well done GSP, I am sure you will take the brand to bigger and better places.