Musings of a Mediocre Mother
Can you believe that another Xmas is upon us? I blinked and a year has gone by. If you are a regular reader of my column you’ll know that I look upon Christmas with almost child-like excitement. I try desperately not to get too excited too early otherwise I suffer Christmas burn-out. We all moan about the playing of carols and shop window displays going festive so early, I can actually deal with that, but Santa’s grotto in Victoria Place on 13th November? It might even have been there before that but that was the day I saw it. And is it just me or does anyone else find those mechanised elves that move only very slightly, creepy in the extreme. They’re all a bit Chucky like (and I haven’t even seen the films), their impish grins bordering on the verge of demonic.
Anyone who has young children knows how difficult it is to keep a lid on their excitement, please don’t stoke that fire with a trip to Santa in mid-November. Lapland UK doesn’t start until December 1st, Hamley’s grotto begins the last weekend in November as does the ice-skating in Calverley Park. In fact a quick scout around the internet showed that most Santa/Xmas based activities begin at the beginning of December, which is a lot more sensible.
Going off a tangent which I am prone to doing, but when in Victoria Place I noticed that the Ugg-style boot matched with leggings look is still alive and well, particularly amongst the over-weight. Ladies, please, take a good look in a mirror and consider those around you. It is not a good look. Unless your boots are actual Uggs, and sometimes even when they are, after a while it looks as if your ankles have been snapped as your feet slip inwards off the sole. Leggings should only be worn by the very slim and very young, and for goodness sake please make sure that if you wear them that they are a) not see-through and b) you wear a top that covers your bottom, front and back. There is a reason we wear clothes, however some women I saw that day, needn’t have bothered wearing anything below the waist.
With Christmas comes the annual problem of what to buy the children (husband is another problem in itself), but my 12 and 7 year old would like an i-Pad and i-Pod touch respectively, so, just a few hundred pounds there then . And for my 7 year old this is just the 1st item on his Christmas list, a list incidentally, that he has been working on since September with many revisions and a sliding scale that ranges from ‘want most of all’, to ‘quite want’. By-the-by, I’d quite like a new glass mixing bowl and a non-stick saucepan. Cheap date or what?
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This year’s word of the year has been named by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘Omnishambles’. The word – meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle – was coined in 2009 by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It. It’s probably one of the few words from that series that can be repeated here. My computer doesn’t like it though and has underlined it in red. Whatever you’re doing this Christmas, I hope that it is not omnishambolic and that you pass it in peace, harmony and leggings only when absolutely necessary!
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