Latest moan from you and me - 2016

@silu you've written my post word for word! Mr S and I jumped off the Christmas bandwagon at least ten years ago, fed up with the stress and cost. I'm not a religious person but the whole meaning of Christmas has been forgotten. How many of the greedy spend thrift population of today will give any thought to what Christmas should be about! Meanwhile we will be doing what we always do, a humble picnic in the car (not having bought up the supermarket), whatever the temperature, in a beauty spot chosen on the spur of the moment. This is not to escape the rubbish on television either, that went out the door almost six years ago! Why pay out good money for the BBC's television licence just to watch rubbish on every station.

 

Stop taking pictures of me please

 

@silu, I felt the same way about my visit to Kew last week. There were a lot of uncontrolled children and it is becoming more of a theme Park so much so that I don't think I'll go there again.

 

I wouldn't have thought Kew would have held much attraction for small children? Sorry @strongylodon that your visit wasn't enjoyable. Maybe we should run riot in play parks and see how small children like their playgrounds being taken over by a squad of unruly rubbish dropping old codgers

 

I know you all like playing darts, but i don't want to break your camera lens

 

Poor @ARMANDII that wouldn't be smoke coming out of your ears would it?

 

Couriers aren't much better Armandii. I waited eight days for a parcel that should have taken a maximum of three and having checked the couriers tracking, the last entry was the 19th of this month saying it was going to be delivered on that day. Yesterday I emailed the company that had sent the parcel from whom I've had no reply as yet. Said parcel turned up this evening, the ninth day! I've had problems with the same courier in the past and know they haven't got a reliable service for deliveries all over the country.