Folly with a full-moon tide

We seem to have gone back to the 1970s. Then whole country seemed to shut down for a week after Christmas when New Year’s Day became a Bank Holiday in England in 1974. Until people got fed up of being cooped up with the family for such an unbearably long time & shops started opening up, even on Boxing Day.

This year, everybody seems to be ready for a fortnight off – everywhere was remarkably quiet yesterday, even though we are not snowed in or even disrupted by the weather. The bus driver welcomed me even more enthusiastically than usual when I got on to rescue her from her Billy No Mates status.

Today everybody is telling each other to have a good Christmas, clearly not expecting to see them again until after it is all over.

I predict an even bigger baby boom in autumn 2010, especially since the moon will be full on New Year’s Eve.

Cue anxiety headlines about our soon to be 70 million population forecast.

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