The Festive Spirit

Today is hot and sunny so I set off on an adventure

I shall take the bus into The City and admire the Christmas Decorations
I shall ignore the fact that these decorations are showing their age!

I shall admire at length the animated marionette Christmas display in the department store windows.
I shall ignore the small children who creep in under my legs and whose parents excuse such behaviour

I shall find a Christmas tree or two or fifty

I shall admire the plastic Santas adorning almost every retail display

I shall make Christmas Special!!.

I shall refuse to be tempted by the unending array of chocolate, gingerbread and other confectionery

I shall admire the arcade decorations

I shall put life and limb in danger to photograph Queen Street

I shall wonder where all the "foreigners" have come from until I spy this

I shall meet the Jolly Fat Fellow

I shall even wish him Merry Christmas
Hey ho, the bells are ringing