Grumpy Old Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly...Grumpy

So - 'tis the season to be jolly is it? Well, not in the household of the Grumpy Old Man it isn't. In the case of the GOM, 'tis the season to have to put up with even deeper layers of vexation than usual and the only thing worth celebrating is that it looks as though you might after all be surviving to the end of what has been another crap year. Everything about Christmas gets up our nose. Everything. From the breakfast TV presenters who tell us it's now just 120 shopping days to go, to the annual festive strike by airport baggage handlers to the office parties where drunken juniors have waited the whole year to air their grievances about you. Now you can read all about it...