Holly Berries & Baubauls

Christmas and I have never really been friends. It always brings memories of the bad and all the festivities are surrounded with gloom. With the credit crunch setting in, it makes walking around the English town a manic mission and far from enjoyable. People declaring, "I've got to get this, I've got to get that," but not a single utter of, "I'd like to get this." It's always a rush. Always forceful and all for a day. But it's not the day that is remembered, it's the commercialism and the constant pressure to have everything bought in, everything prepared. The day is not welcomed but more greeted with a sigh of relief that the mania is over for another year. How very parallel from the old.