Merry merry Xmas.....

Today ah totally slipping day.

Should have been out of bed and up and at them, did we do that or lie in.

No prizes, mind you lie in still saw us on the road at a time that started 09 something.

Annoying though, all those software companies that were holding back stocks of "must have" games so they could punt them out at to desparate punters at "you cannot be serious" must have realised they would arrive in the new year with a big pile of stock and a need to discount big style to move it off the shelf.

Games we have struggled to find online all week, that were listed out of stock in store were suddenly on the shelf this morning.

But anyway we got through, management went off to take Sir Bruce to have her hair professionally done for the first time at a cost of ")*)&*^&)&^) _)*_*&_&". Very happy she is too.

Wandering round, being Branwen, exploring her new persona.

This left me to meet managements ex, delivering Perfectos Xmas money.

This has been a bad year for them, his 18 year old step son wiped himself out in an awful car crash.

I don't want to give a lot of detail but there is something we used to do as newly qualified drivers who lived close to Daycastle. I was fond of it in my Morris Minor, he used to do it, in a moggy too, my mate the firefighter who was on the shout had done it too. Youthful exuberance, invincibility, unfortunately luck had turned against his step son and he hit a tree not the road.

A family propelled into tragedy.

But here's one for those who feel for the banking system .

The banks and credit card companies had not noted that at 18 he had no job. No they noted he could sign on the doted line....

So of course he had a big portfolio of visa cards, and these companies who had not thought to ask his parents if lending him money was a good idea, had been phoning his bereaved parents now he was dead to ask for their money back.

Death of a young person is a very sad thing, telling banks to get stuffed is a very small recompense.

But this is how the financial system works, they recklessly lent him money, and now he cannot pay. They wanted someone else to pay for their folly.

R