I moan about this every year
it would seem, but the nearer you get to Christmas, the more un-Christmassy the
city centre gets. The market square still looks nice of course, but the shops
seem to wind things down at the beginning of December. It’s a shame really when
you consider how the shops have been decked out for the festive season since
the summer. This makes finishing your Christmas shopping on the day before
Christmas Eve a bit of a pain in the arse, when the shops are gearing up to
fill the shelves with Easter eggs and sun cream.
My intention today was to spend
as little time as possible in town finishing the last bits of present buying
before returning to the cocoon that is my office to record the final edition of
The Sound Of Nottingham UK for this year
(a ‘best of’ compilation of the live sessions) followed by the Christmas
special episode of Steve’s LP Box.
As with all good intentions, this went a little wrong as the shopping seemed to
be taking forever and I was still in town at around four o’clock. Once I was
home I took Jack to the park for a run around, and fed him and the cats on my
return. By the time I had recorded TSONUK and sent
it over, I didn’t feel motivated to record the Christmas LP Box.
I’m certainly unable to do it tomorrow as I am obviously not going to work on
Christmas Eve, and once Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and ‘the day after Boxing
Day’ has been and gone, people don’t seem in the mood for a Christmas themed
show. I know it is Christmas until January 6th, but people are
generally too stupid these days for that to wash. I had already decided to stop
doing LP Box but will do an annual Christmas
show, so next year I will release two, one of them being this year’s. The
script is written so I have plenty of time to get it done, in theory.
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