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Mrs.L is usually awful for it.. she will panic buy for me crap that I just don't want or need that Is usually over priced too.
This year I told her what I wanted and that she wasn't to get it for me until after Christmas as was for the new house and it would be cheaper in the sales.
Come Christmas I got a pair of socks with dinosaurs on them.
Best Christmas morning ever.
No way am I looking forward to this ending.
In my game it means zero time with family.
Granted, you get xmas day off, as your day off that week, but thats it.
The stores open til 11pm over most of December too instead of 10pm.. which is silly. Wouldnt mind so much if you got any anti social hours pay or summat, but nah, a flat £8.60 odd an hour.
To add insult to injury, you watch as the favourites never work past 6pm or have to work Sundays, for the same damn wage..
Wank!
You're not allowed to book holiday from Nov-Feb either
That was my 10th xmas in retail..
Hopefully I'll be out of it soon..
I'd love to have time to enjoy it next year.
Currently I feel drained, physically and emotionally.
I think I really have had enough haha..
Then this year I decided I wasn't doing it anymore, decided I was spending too much time on my current employers needs and not enough on mine or my family's. I made a huge change in my life and walked away from it. It was not an easy thing to do, in fact it was bloody scary, but this year I had my first summer since being a teenager, and it was absolutely glorious.
Really hope that you get to enjoy the same for winter some time soon. It's truly liberating.
My parents are getting on now and I dont want to remember never being able to see them because of a shit job!
Once the hours settle next week I'll be on looking for further pastures..
This year!! Its gotta be done.
Whether you find any deeper meaning is down to the individual. It makes me pause and realise how grateful I am for what I have in my life. Something that it is all to easy to forget about at times.
Then again I can be a sentimental old fool at the best of times.
Oh, and the answer is Quality Street. Roses, Heroes, etc are crap.
Some family came over for lunch and to exchange presents - was quite nice really.
Boxing day did a 150 mile journey to pick up my daughter, my dad and sister came over. Spent yesterday evening having to unblock to the toilet after one of them dropped off a yule log - that was the worst part.
Now back at my desk in the office like it all never happened.
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There is much about the celebration of Christmas that I don’t like but I’ve had some time with MrsTheWeary and the kids and with my 91 year old mother ( and her carer, so I’ve been learning about Christmas in Zimbabwe - goat meat mostly). And we get Boxing Day ( since 1974, Labour brought that in) so it’s a two day public holiday which not everyone around the world gets.
If I can ignore 99% of the build up it’s perfectly nice.
Then there is the consumerist festival. The excesses of gift-giving, booze, food and TV. I, like most men, hate it for the most part. It really is for women and kids. The kids love it because they get gifts and get to watch tons of TV and so on. Women like to ensure it is "perfect", so feel they need to do thousands of jobs just so the damned day is "special". It can take it or leave it to be honest. I certainly wouldn't feel the need to do a "big hoover" on Christmas Eve!
A few years ago there was an uproar when one of the city councils (I think it was Birmingham) wanted to rename Christmas to Winterval. The newspapers were screaming about political correctness gone mad, you know the kind of thing. I remember thinking it was fine. Great. Rename the celebration of consumerism be renamed to Winterval. It wouldn't affect me in the slightest because I will be in Church celebrating Christ's Mass (Christmas - geddit!!!). If they renamed the consumerism as Winterval we could reclaim the word Christmas for its original meaning.
Anyway, I enjoy the Churchy-bit and get hacked off with the spendy-bit.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you"41 days and nights of activity that ranged from BBC Children in Need, to the Christmas Lights Switch On, to a Frankfurt Christmas Market, outdoor ice rink, Aston Hall by Candlelight, Diwali, shopping at Christmas, world class theatre and arts plus, of course, New Year's Eve with its massive 100,000 audience."
Chubb realised that with so many events competing for visitors, marketing them as individual occasions would be expensive, time-consuming and ineffective in acquiring sponsorship or funding. What the events needed, he decided, was a "generic banner under which they could all sit". His team settled on "Winterval" – a portmanteau of "winter" and "festival".
Little did he or anyone else on the events team realise that this name was to found one of the most persistent urban myths of modern times, and that years later he would be writing an article explaining – again – what the event was and how it was never about renaming or banning Christmas.
How this happened makes for a fascinating story about the causes of bad journalism, the messages of irresponsible and paranoid church leaders, and badly informed, popularity-seeking politicians looking for a tabloid-friendly soundbite. The bad journalism started with the local newspaper that broke the "story" of Winterval on 8 November 1998 and travelled quickly through the national media. What is worrying is that the original story was so clearly completely untrue and contained clear statements from the council that demonstrated this.
Between them, the Times and the Sunday Times have in fact managed to repeat the myth 40 times in total since 1998, an achievement only surpassed by the Daily Mail, which leads the field with 44 mentions. The Daily Telegraph managed to repeat it 22 times, only slightly behind the Express (26), and a bit further behind the Sun (31). The Daily Mirror only seems to have repeated the myth on four occasions – less than the Guardian, which has repeated it on six occasions, even though it did eventually debunk the myth in several different articles.
The myth was not just repeated, either. It was also gradually distorted to become ever more removed from the original misconception. What started as a myth that one council had rebranded or renamed Christmas became a pluralised, open-ended narrative that "councils" and "authorities" were rebranding or renaming Christmas as "Winterval".
It then mutated from a simple rebranding to a calculated attack on Christianity by "atheists", "Muslims", or the "PC brigade" who feared offending "other faiths" or "ethnic minorities". In one extreme example, the South Wales Echo claimed that Winterval was the result of "virulent attacks on religion by atheists", which had led to "new rules such as Christmas being renamed as "Winterval". Who created and enforced this "rule" and who it applied to was not explained in the article.
In all, at least 15 articles directly claim that Christmas was renamed Winterval because of a fear of offending "other faiths". At least a further 10 articles directly claim that Winterval was used to avoid offending "ethnic minorities".
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All I'm saying is that it isn't the worst idea in the world!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The Winter Solstice Radio Times
Winter Solstice opening hours
Winter Solstice decorations
and so on.
We will only have Christmas Day in Church, where we will celebrate Christ's Mass. Everyone else can have Winter Solstice day.
I'm all for it.