Bah Humbug - It's December again! 10 days to go!

Thursday 15th December. And a quick dash to the bookshop.

Why was it so busy?

Ah, yes, I went on the first day of 20% off for members and 10% off for non-members. A ruse to charge more during the year, and then charge a more reasonable price for books leading up to the season when most people purchase books that will sit on shelves and never be read.

Off I dashed. Rather like Santa's reindeer - only, I was dashing through the carpark trying to find a parking space.

Too many people out today. It took me 15 minutes to find a space.

And then I was dashing up the escalators, trying to dodge the people who refuse to stand on the correct side.

Finally, I found myself dashing around the bookstore. It's sort of a circular bookstore, laid out around a central set of escalators, so the dashing was definitely circular. It brought to mind a corporate ski holiday in Park City, Utah, many moons ago. The company I was visiting arranged a reindeer sleigh ride, complete with sleigh bells.

It was dark. The reindeer walked us around in a figure of eight - two circles. It seemed like we'd covered a lot of ground. Perhaps we had, but we hadn't gone very far.

So, there I was, in the middle of a bookstore in Singapore - Kinokinuya - dashing around, trying to find where they'd moved all the sections.

Why on earth do stores move things around?

It can only be to tourture customers, or make you find things you suddenly think you need, but didn't need when you first walked in.

Bah flipping Humbug, it's a good job my overspend was on books ...

The Tenth Day Before Christmas - Bah Humbug

Bah Humbug, it's 15th December, 10 days to go. Rather like a rocket countdown.

Which brings me to the subject of China putting a rabbit or rather a rover called rabbit on the moon. I thought Rover was a dog, a Tolkien Dog that ended up living for a while on the moon with another dog called Rover and so he had to change his name to Roverandum.

A wonderful short video of Roverandum meeting the man in the moon.




BAH HUMBUG: Three hours wandering around a shopping mall, jammed with shoaling shoppers while we waited our turn to collect a couple of new phones and a few other nicknacks. And then it rained.

You see, this is why this time of year is such a nightmare - I should say Bah Humbug, again. Shoaling shoppers, rain, traffic, over-priced items, pressure to purchase what you don't really need and a cacophony of Christmas songs.