This Christmas...

This Christmas I went shopping with a policy that gifts had to be expendable - eatable, drinkable or useable. I did most of my Christmas shopping at Watson's & Cold Storage and got presents like assorted lube packs and Robovites and Stop-Snore. I was quite pleased with myself whilst on this mission until I started receiving nice gifts and hardly anybody saw the humour in my cheap token gifts and I started to get that feeling of social mis-fit all over again.


Guilt is horrible... someone once told me that feeling guilty about needing to reciprocate the gift ruins the purity of spirit with which the original gift is given in the first place.

Another lovely theory I have yet to get a grip on.