Merry Bloody Ebenezer's Day

It always comes at theis time of year.Christmas day.Or the expectation, of what that might bring about.The tree,the tinsel ,the expected presents..
when I have always found it...a total disappointment.....Or is that the festive christmas story book character raising his annual head...in defiance of what everybody has come to believe.In some ways...Ebenzer Scrooge has to be considered...and his eventual realisation of what Christmas might mean....is all a little big too story book ending..for what significantly is a celebration of the birth of Christianity....
Stables Mangers and Angels....Throw in a couple of shepherds..and a three poofs having lost their way from the Bethlehem Star and Garter..rolled up in tinsel..after a good night out...offering their perfimes and jewellry to apoloigise for rolling in the wrong door.
Give a moment of disbelief to enable a virgin birth...which somehow makes a placenta rather like the spare prick at a wedding..and there you have it...
So ....Go buy presents to present to the child....Ok ,most of them will have stamped in China ,on them by now: and the perfumes and gold will be courtesy of the two dollar shop along with it's knock off perfumes....For those feeling the christmas pinch the two dollar shop has just opened a new world of expectation...WHO THOSE you hold dear.

Ok...Father Christmas....yep we got the Dutch connection..with Nicholas...and the joy he spread. Because he had collected more in the church coffers than he needed ,or thanks to the ever bowing faithful...who dropping their hard earned cash in the collection plate on Sundays....IMagine suprise as you found presents dropped on their hearths that you didn't know what to do with ....Wrapped in paper....who's to know....
But for the rest is all twenthieth century CocoCola....who invented the old boy ,while peddling cocaine additives to a much more appreciative syrup mix....
Now its no sugar or all sugar....and its all a matter of taste
So... well that being what it is I am yet to be convinced that Christmas is likely to rock my fundermental thinking.....
but of course....who would be without the christmas dinner... eating until you've consumed more than is dignified..drunk the christmas cheer until you cant estimate whether you are just awash with sugar ,or an over Consumption of food.....
Ok I am a succour for Christmas Cake..and I have had a christmas tart recently that could be said to be palateable....in a generation who have come to forget the fly cemetry filling you were looking forward to....
and who would spoil christmas for the kids.....
consdiering the adventures I had as a child.....I tend to err on the side of....
sentimentality......
but................it's become a helluva balloo.....and wish the next millenium would tidy it up.....after who's going to convince a terrorist in Pakistan not to throw a brick...just because christianity has to be celebrated.....
Bah Humbug.......