A post Christmas message!

There cannot be a person I know who does not celebrate Christmas, and yet I don't think I can recall a single regular churchgoer within my sphere of contacts.

Me I cannot remember a time when I was a believer in Christ, even as a child, now if you ever read me with any regularity you will realise that I am a bit of a cynic, but just for the record, I am not entirely without an illogical belief system, because believe it or not I do actually have faith in Father Christmas.

The only thing that I believe matters a damn, in this world, is how we treat our fellow human beings, therefore the custom of giving at Christmas is one of those things that I can support, although all the other baggage that goes with Christianity is just so much crap, from the Pope insisting that priests and nuns must be sexually frustrated throughout their life to various Protestant denominations who despise the Catholic Church and have their own loony rules.

Those aspects of Christmas such as generosity, being friendly etc are what make Christmas for me. Perhaps the only fly in the ointment on Christmas Day, is the insistence of the Queen on giving a speech to the nation at 3pm half way through many a Christmas dinner, now maybe I should not be so churlish in objecting to this gift, but I just wonder how the Queen would react were I to show up at Sandringham and give her family a speech half way through their dinner.

One of the weirdest things at this the time of year and perhaps best aspects is the desire to wish good things to anyone and everyone I even got a happy Christmas type e-mail from one rascal who earlier in the year not only placed libellous statements on their website but also contributed to some considerable ill informed and violent comments.

Any how I hope that the readers of this blog have had a good Christmas and hopefully some of the ambience of this time of year will last well into mid-year.