The Insomniac Meanderings Post : Post Black Saturday Of Black Friday Edition

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Cold out there. Though for the moment snow, the forecast snow that apparently should have hit us for the whole of November has not arrived. Presumably it will turn up when I'm not looking.

Of course kids will look forward to snow as the dreaded C word is fast approaching. But as I've said in the past as I grow old then I know I would seek to avoid it like the plague if I didn't have a wife,daughter and mother who embrace it. I know I'll be working on Christmas day which to be honest is no hardship. I am however working in the morning, which means I have to be all ho ho ho and full of the Xmas spirit during Christmas dinner whilst experiencing the jet lag without the glamour that shift work provides. Not looking forward to it at all.

And speaking of Christmas dinner. I'm OK with Turkey and stuffing and all that. But Christmas Cake, Christmas pudding and mince pies? Ugh!

Everyone on TV is apparently talking about the John Lewis Christmas ad starring Elton John. Listen. It's just an ad trying to make you buy things from a department store. The type of store which seems to be the most venerable to the decline in the high street. I've never bought anything in a John Lewis because I don't live near enough to one to make it worth the effort of going.

Mind you wife/daughter are off Christmas shopping today (I'm working...thankfully) in the centre Cardiff. Will give them some money to give the homeless there which seems to be growing on the rare occasions I visit there nowadays

I've also seen that Aldi ad where the carrots protect themselves from being part of the Christmas meal. Well perhaps. But they're going to be eaten in other times of the year, Aldi's Christmas slogan should be "We give carrots a stay of execution".

So Theresa May is writing a letter saying why her Brexit deal is the best route. Leaving aside that remaining in the EU would have been the route and putting out another referendum to legitimise it would be the best tactic let's face facts. Everything. And I mean everything the Prime Minister has touched has turned into the brown stuff. So without reading it I know it's a bad deal.

The Prime Minister also said that she would "stand by Gibraltar" even though she apparently has given some assurances to Spain on the issue. So to be clear Gibraltarians be worried. After all this is the woman who said she wouldn't call a general election only to actually do so......disastrously.

Personally I wouldn't support a war with Spain over Gibraltar. If only because I wouldn't trust the motives of the British government. Mind you perhaps the Gibraltar authorities should start negotiations in forming a relationship with the Catalan authorities. Now wouldn't that be fun....

On Twitter apparently it's Socialist Sunday. Well as I've said before in Wales the socialists don't act like socialists they act as if they're part of a privileged elite. My post yesterday on how two prominent Welsh socialists feel that the free car parking policy in hospitals  here is "flawed" garnered a number of responses. Perhaps Labour in Wales should change their name to, let's say masked Conservatives?

Anyway wife and daughter are now awake.

Until the next time.