Well not everybody, but since I posted an item titled Christmas Is Bollocks on Boggart Blog I last a few friends and had some very unflattering personal messages.
Apparently quite a lot of people think I should stop being a miserable old git and like Scrooge sign up to the who turkey and christmas trees routine.
I wonder if these Dickensian dopes stopped to think while they were wearing their silly hats and pulling their cheap as chips crackers (oops, sorry. Wrong Dickensian!) that an estimated thirty thousand people will be fortced to declare personal bankruptcy because of Christmas spending, or of the misery many hundreds of thousands who avoid bankruptcy or are simplt too poor to be able to declare themselves bankrupt will suffer.
People will be forced into the hands of loan sharks, others will take part time homeworking jons to make ends meet and still more will suffer the humiliation of having to ask friends and family to bail them out.
So when people tell me I should learn to enjoy, I mean it when I say that I enjoy every day of the year and so Chistmas comes and goes with little fuss, we see friends and family, we don't eat turkey and Christmas pudding because nobody likes it and we don't spend fortunes on worthless tat.
And the big pressie this year? Instead of spending on worthless tat we funded a well for a village in Africa so the people there can drink clean water next year. Because too many people in the world are denied that simple luxury that we take for granted.
Merry Christmas everybody, ho, ho, ho.