Tis the Season to be Pissed Off!

The temperature levels are dropping, it is dark by 5.00 pm, the John Lewis Christmas advert arrives this evening. It’s that time of year again.

But the universe will insist on balance, and is busy trying to take the shine off any emerging seasonal glitter.

Wherever you look, the spoilers are out in force.

Mass shooting after mass shooting in the US, not acts of terrorism because the shooters were white, and definitely nothing to do, in any way whatsoever, to do with the distinct lack of gun control.

The bright orange ‘Leader of the Free World’ running diplomacy from his Twitter account, and behaving like an over-indulged brat, with no idea of the definition of repercussions.

And policy on the hoof seems to be the order of the day.

Whether it’s the playground president, or our very own, now ex, Secretary of State for International Development, personal ambition, and agendas hidden or public, seem to be how things are done.

Then there is the teflon-coated Foreign Secretary, whose regular blunders, gaffs, ‘banter’, ‘that’s just Boris being Boris’, cause regular scares but never seem to be enough to convince the PM that he is a self-serving, arrogant buffoon.

And only one of those has gone. So far.

And, further along the continuum is the sleaze-fest that is the ripples from Weinstein and the Westminster bubble getting mightily pricked – and I chose that word carefully.

At the other end, and closest to me, are those I know, those I care about, those I hold dear and next to my heart, who have been suffering, and are suffering, and are being punished for no reason, except they are good people.

And it makes me angry, and monumentally pissed off, and everything in between.

But, and it is a huge but, I am so grateful to know them, and have them in my life, and be part of theirs.

Even if I am helpless to reduce the piles of crap they have to deal with, I will be beside them when it helps, and even when it doesn’t. Past master at standing in the way, me!

So, this season will be made jolly by those I know and love, and not screwed up by those I view from afar with distaste.

Ho Ho Ho!