This isn't just food...

[caddyman]

I am quite definitely at a loose end. Tottering heaps of paperwork poise on the edge of my desk calling for my attention, but it would be pointless and very probably self-defeating to tackle them until we know what’s gong on. Then it will be busy time with a capital BUSY.

I would normally work on the November payment run at this point, too, but one authority is about to pay us a large tranche of money and may get billed for it twice, compounding the initial error if I proceed too quickly on that front. Thus I am doing the only sensible thing: blogging.

I nipped out an hour or so ago to get some sarnies for lunch and it is clear that whilst it is still 2 months away, Christmas is looming large in the retail mind. In the bag with my sarnies and brand-x hula hoops-alike snack, I find that the cashier has stuffed an M&S Christmas food catalogue.

I must say that it all looks rather toothsome. I don’t think there is anything in the catalogue that I would turn my nose up at, particularly the various turkeys, chickens, pork, lamb and beef joints. The Scottish salmon looks pretty damned groovy, too. But the prices. And the sizes.

This isn’t just food; it’s mind-buggeringly expensive M&S food.

The icon appears for the first time in 2007. I very much doubt it will be the last.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

What's this 'Christmas' you speak of ? In my homeland on December the 25th with spend the day remembering the death of James Brown and commemorate it by wearing bad wigs, sparkly suits, wrapping ourselves in stars and stripes and gyrating wildly. At 12 noon we yell "AAAWWWWWWWW!" and "Take it to the bridge!", smoke loads of drugs and fire guns into the sky.

It is a beautiful tradition

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I have no difficulty imagining that. I'm not sure what it says about me or you.

And since when have you given up on Festivus anyway?

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Festivus is the 23rd, you can celebrate both. The 25th used to be JC day, now it's JB day, good gawd, can ya feel it now, awwwwwwwww!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

This I hadn't considered....

I'll get me wig and sparkly suit...