GS christmas

[Vigilias]

I wont be celebrating Christmas. I never do and in fact I hate the thing with the heat of a thousand suns!

No special food or drink (I don't like drinking much anyway). I have nobody to buy for, I don't send or accept/receive Christmas cards and if anyone comes out with trite old, don't-be-on-your-own-at-Christmas-come-to-us I usually but politely tell them to take their guilt and expunge it at a local homeless shelter or old folks home where it can be put to good use.

It is perhaps the one time of year when Bitch-Cat and I can get some peace.

Anyway, my sciatica makes it painful to bend and bow at the alter of excess!

"Christmas! A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th December!"

[Vigilias]

Incidentally, here in the UK it's the law that before an organisation dealing with children or vulnerable adults may employ someone either as salaried or voluntary staff in what is known as regulated activity, that the candidate must provide an Enhanced Disclosure from the Government's Disclosure and Barring Service formerly the Criminal Records Bureau. This will flag up if they have any criminality which makes them unsuitable for such work and if they have been placed on a list of people barred from carrying out such activity.

The cost of the disclosure must be met by the employer.