The most annoying adverts on at the moment have to be 'We want your gold', 'No we want your gold more', 'We really, really, really want all your gold' 'Gold Now', 'Give Us All Your Gold', etc. etc.. But the prize for most annoying goes to 'the man who does not blink when asking for your gold'. Not once, it's almost as if he's trying to hypnotise you. He is known in our house as "the man with the scary eyes".
Trick or Treat
This is a stupid idea from across the pond (as American actors call it). British children should be brought up to know that this is not acceptable behaviour in England. As a vicar's daughter Halloween is pagan, very dangerous and evil. Not........... It's harmless fun.
Ghost stories, eating marshmallows suspended from string and running round a large vicarage garden screaming at all your friends, was a yearly event in my childhood. My mother even made all three of us dress up as devils one year - Christian readers with children please note.
Theatre
Talking of ghost stories we have tickets to see the play Darker Shores in December, with Mark Gatiss and 'I've got a voice to die for Julian Rhind-Tutt'. I am very excited. I've also got a hankering to see A Women in Black again, it must be at least 15 years since we last saw this, certainly long enough to have forgotten the storyline.
Getting Ready for Christmas
In order not to panic, this year I have consulted a fail-safe guide to running a smooth and stress free Christmas which allows the hostess time to herself in order to drink a small sweet sherry at 6.00 pm each evening during the Yule tide preparations. Looks at her Smirnoff Ice and thinks is this a good start?
OK aghhhhhhhhhh am already behind, I should already have a home made pudding reclining a dark cupboard and all the ingredients brought and readily stored in a cupboard for Stir Up Sunday. When the heck is Stir Up Sunday? do you know churches are full of people who visually blanch and get panicking looks in their eyes when some obscure reading from the Bible suddenly mentions something along the lines about "getting stirred up" i.e. cue for cake baking! Honestly last year I made the cake a week before Christmas, iced it on Christmas Eve and it still got eaten - it was OK and no one died.
This week write a friendly note, address and stamp all cards, which you will have purchased in the January Sales. If you have failed to buy cards in January, please ensure you do purchase charity cards where the shop donates more then just 1p per card to said charity, this is not enough donation to give you that warm and fuzzy feeling of having done good.
Getting Ready for Birthdays
Forgets all the above, I have one child, one husband and one brother all with birthdays before I can even think about 'Good Yule' and harvesting fresh holly.
And finally
This is my first attempt at blogging thanks to a fellow blogger who has dragged me out of the comments section.
All comments gratefully received.
Imo
IMO, I'm delighted that you have come up out of the sewers of BlackLOG, welcome to the wonderful world that is upstairs blogging. As the official patron of Midge’s Musings I am pleased to be the first to comment and your first follower.
ReplyDeleteI must admit the gold advert has passed without any real notice from me. You have left me desperate to see the incredible none blinking man, however I feel I should take precautions first, as the only gold that I posses is my wedding ring. I suspect Mrs.B would take a very dim view if I suddenly stuff my ring in an envelope, mechanically chanting “Must send gold, must send gold, they need my gold….” . I believe the pittance that these charlatans would send in its place would do little to calm her. So as soon as I purchase a box of Terry’s All Gold as my fallback protection, I shall be scanning the adverts like a small child rifling through a toy catalogue in the lead up to Christmas….
Stir Up Sunday- isn’t that when the In-law’s arrive and round one of the festive fighting begins?
P.S. It might be a good idea to turn off Word Verification incase Kathryn visits. She takes a dim view, I still have a slight limp after she tackled me on the subject a couple of weeks ago….
ReplyDeleteThanks for being my No. 1 comment person, as well as No.1 official patron.
ReplyDeleteWord Verification is now off. I have to agree with Kathryn it is the most annoying thing ever.
Update on adds, still have not seen the Gold advert but I can confirm that there is a - "We need your phone advert" they don't blink either. I almost sent my current phone off to them....
ReplyDeleteDuring this investigation I witnessed a really bad sofa advert with an orange guy in a DJ who grins inanely and points back in the general direction of the Sofas. It makes me want to vomit….
Maybe "we need your phone" and "we need your gold" is the same man, and I haven't seen the orange man with sofas yet! The excitment is almost too much to bear.
ReplyDeleteAnd do you actually want to send your current phone away - it is not still in use? You might miss it! And you really should be able to resist the power of advertising, or have you already ordered your new sofa.....
Well, IMO, you've started, I wait for more. I am here after being cajoled by your first follower on his blog. Enjoyed the read, will follow too, just to see where you lead me.
ReplyDeleteAV
Yay Number 2 supporter welcome. Where am I going to lead you? I have no idea!
ReplyDelete