Christmas in London, 2008

Wednesday, 24 December, 2008

The one thing I like about Christmas in London are the sometimes extravagant displays put on in retail stores in the capital. The credit crunch seems yet to significantly affect the likes of Liberty and Fortnun & Mason. I've got a feeling their clientele are rich enough to to skim through unaffected. Small clue were the Christmas crackers at F&M which sold for up to £1,000! (The crackers discounted from £500 to £369 made me laugh - cynically.)

Anyway, I took more photos which can be viewed here: London Christmas. Regards myself wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, the following sentiment seems to be doing the rounds and sums everything up thoughtfully.

"I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. Having taken advice I wish to say the following:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practise religious or secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that Great Britain is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Disclaimer: No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced."

Author unknown. Have a good one everybody.

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