Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you had a wonderful time, I hope Santa emptied his sack at the end of your bed on the night. I was working all night and didn't finish until the 8th hour of the day, just as light was creeping around the clouds. The morning of Christmas was kinda busy at work, not as busy as last year, but busy enough for my liking. Soon it was homeward bound to a bottle of bubbly and Matty and that's where Christmas began.
We enjoyed ourselves with our first Christmas together, opening presents, snuggling, watching TV, eating, drinking and just simply enjoying being together and the time of year. Of course the obligatory calls to the parents we completed and duties discharged and another bottle of bubbly was dispatched along with other beverages of an alcoholic nature. So to you all I sincerely hope you had a great time, whether you were in the bosom of your family or alone or enjoying spending time with your friends, or down the pub, of in the case of St James Street - down at the Pizza place!
So, the presents have been unwrapped, the good ones kept and those jingly novelty socks throw behind the wardrobe. The only thing left in the Quality Street tin are the toffee things that no one likes, not even old granny Whipple. The leftovers have been mashed beyond all recognition in a curry and those new fairy lights you bought to last the next 10 years have fizzed fused and gone bang! All that means one thing and one thing only - Christmas 2008 is over! Yes, my friends, one and all, the celebration that is Christmas is now complete. It's done, finished, ended, ceased, over and passed! And you know what that means, don't you? Yes, sale time!
Well, OK, each previous year it would mean that, but this year with the economic crisis that is crumbling the retail world as we know it, it's just the start of even more discounts. All the major stores started their 'January' sales before Christmas, now that that special day is, for this year, passed and over, they've further lowered their prices for the post Xmas sales.
Matt and I ventured further today, across the Old Stein and up to Churchill Square, the focus for retail in Brighton. Even before we entered that palace of purchases, I know it was busy, very busy. We had to fight and struggle our way in, passed the hoards
of people milling about like ants on a rampage. There was even a line inside the shopping center to get in to one retail outlet, Zavvi, which is, sadly become another victim of the climate of economic woes. We did jump the Que and bopped into the store, however 6 deep before the shelves was too much for me and we battled out and found a breathing space by the railings of the balcony area. We looked left and saw a wall of people, we looked right and saw a wall of people, we looked down and saw a wall of people and we looked up and saw seagull poop! It was, busy, very busy, in fact it's the busiest I've ever seen Churchill Square, far more jam packed with people than any date prior to the celebration of materialistic modernist commercialism - (Christmas!) However, the one thing that did strike me as strange was, no not the fat slags chain smoking outside the front doors, whilst shouting in their mobiles, nor was it the Whitehawk Chav's swapping their sovereign rings from H Samuels, and it the spotty teenager hoping no-one would notice the Christmas Jumper that Auntie Nelly had bought him with Santa on the front that he was tr
ying hard to hide under his trendy 'Le Coc' trakkie top! Nope, the thing that was most odd, was the fact that despite the number of good folks of Brighton out and about, milling here and there, hither and dither, was that not one of them was loaded down with shopping bags. Yes, there were the odd person with two and even fewer with three bags, but the vast majority of 'shoppers' had none, not one! All those people, all those shops, and those products at discounted prices, up to 70% off, which were, it seems staying on the shelves!
With all this doom and gloom around, the economic crisis, the downturn, is it any wonder that people are not splashing the cash as much as they once did. But, is it real? Is this recession an actual event or just media hype? OK, so yes there was a little bit of a flutter in the banking system, but was it really going to shake down the whole worlds fiances had it not been for the mass media hysteric's?
OK, so I'm not a banker, nor am I an economist, in actual fact I know naff all about economics, the global banking systems, the libro and all that jazz, I just know that until very recently, this economic crisis had little to do with me in real life, other than being bored silly with it by the media. I'm not an ostrich, I heard the rumblings of problems after the Northern Rock fiasco, but they were just rumblings. It was the collapse of Woolworth's that kinda bought home to me the problems with the worlds economy that the media was doing a very surprisingly accurate job of predicting. Now, Whittard's the overpriced and crap coffee retailer's has gone the same way, as has MFI and Zavvi and there are far more on the way, indeed some people, who apparently know about that sort of thing, claim there will be as many as 7 major high street chains going bankrupt before the end of next month!
Another reason I've noticed that the global economic crisis is getting closer is that fact that recently the company I work for made 700 of it's UK workforce redundant, yet over on the other side of the pond it's just had a $3.9 billion investment, just to make sure it implode on itself like the US car industry. Oh yea, and the price of a loaf of bread has gone up, the bloody cheek!
Here's Matt!
As Jason said earlier, Christmas has come and gone, and all too quickly if you ask me. Time has worked in it's weird and funny ways, and as stolen another Christmas day from me. Our Christmas was wonderful this year, we enjoyed a lot of festivities, like champagne which was amazingly priced at 10 pounds a bottle, Quality Street tins, which I have eaten most of the toffee pieces out of, which are my favourite, but apparently no one else's (Hehe), and Mince Pie's which Jason loves, but I am not too hip on.
I surprised Jason with a new Disney Dopey plushie, which he loved and was extremely surprised about because I was naughty and put him in a hard plastic case and has paperclips inside so when he shook and felt his present it would throw him way off track as to what it was. I also got him so new scent of Cologne which he likes a lot I think since it's all he has worn for the past two days. I was lucky enough to get a bunch of different types of candies , from Toblerone chocolates to Haribo party packs, and have been munching down on all of them gradually. I was also extremely lucky to get the complete series of Six Feet Under, which I was always wanting to watch but missed the episodes since they were on at the usual time I had online classes. I have to say that I have really enjoyed the first season, as it has almost ended already. Jason says that the second season gets weirder and weirder, but I am sure I will still love it. Here is a small trailer for those of you who may be wondering what in the hell I am rambling on about.
Today Jason and I took a small stroll about the Churchill Square mall, which was overcrowded with what we Americans call "Mallrats" which were all of the people that went to the mall to see the excellent prices on everything, but really just ended up going inside with friends and having a great time looking at all the pretty coloured signs and wandering though the maze of people. As Jason said, there were a sea of individuals flowing thorughout the mall, but few people had bags with merchandise in them. Even though the prices are extremely low right now, people still seem to be leery about buying those good deals, probably in fear that at this rate, the item they are after will decline in price further and further until it's much cheaper later than it is now.
Cheers for now, enjoy the rest of the month of December, and stay warm. Look out for those good deals, which might seem to be a little bit too good to be true, but it may just be your lucky day.
More soon, that is unless the global economic crisis attacks even further and I can't afford the 2000 worth of lemons needed to power this laptop for half an hour! Till the next time, take care of yourself and each other and remember it's nice to be appreciated, but it's far more appreciated to be nice!
of people milling about like ants on a rampage. There was even a line inside the shopping center to get in to one retail outlet, Zavvi, which is, sadly become another victim of the climate of economic woes. We did jump the Que and bopped into the store, however 6 deep before the shelves was too much for me and we battled out and found a breathing space by the railings of the balcony area. We looked left and saw a wall of people, we looked right and saw a wall of people, we looked down and saw a wall of people and we looked up and saw seagull poop! It was, busy, very busy, in fact it's the busiest I've ever seen Churchill Square, far more jam packed with people than any date prior to the celebration of materialistic modernist commercialism - (Christmas!) However, the one thing that did strike me as strange was, no not the fat slags chain smoking outside the front doors, whilst shouting in their mobiles, nor was it the Whitehawk Chav's swapping their sovereign rings from H Samuels, and it the spotty teenager hoping no-one would notice the Christmas Jumper that Auntie Nelly had bought him with Santa on the front that he was tr
ying hard to hide under his trendy 'Le Coc' trakkie top! Nope, the thing that was most odd, was the fact that despite the number of good folks of Brighton out and about, milling here and there, hither and dither, was that not one of them was loaded down with shopping bags. Yes, there were the odd person with two and even fewer with three bags, but the vast majority of 'shoppers' had none, not one! All those people, all those shops, and those products at discounted prices, up to 70% off, which were, it seems staying on the shelves!
With all this doom and gloom around, the economic crisis, the downturn, is it any wonder that people are not splashing the cash as much as they once did. But, is it real? Is this recession an actual event or just media hype? OK, so yes there was a little bit of a flutter in the banking system, but was it really going to shake down the whole worlds fiances had it not been for the mass media hysteric's?
OK, so I'm not a banker, nor am I an economist, in actual fact I know naff all about economics, the global banking systems, the libro and all that jazz, I just know that until very recently, this economic crisis had little to do with me in real life, other than being bored silly with it by the media. I'm not an ostrich, I heard the rumblings of problems after the Northern Rock fiasco, but they were just rumblings. It was the collapse of Woolworth's that kinda bought home to me the problems with the worlds economy that the media was doing a very surprisingly accurate job of predicting. Now, Whittard's the overpriced and crap coffee retailer's has gone the same way, as has MFI and Zavvi and there are far more on the way, indeed some people, who apparently know about that sort of thing, claim there will be as many as 7 major high street chains going bankrupt before the end of next month!
Another reason I've noticed that the global economic crisis is getting closer is that fact that recently the company I work for made 700 of it's UK workforce redundant, yet over on the other side of the pond it's just had a $3.9 billion investment, just to make sure it implode on itself like the US car industry. Oh yea, and the price of a loaf of bread has gone up, the bloody cheek!
Here's Matt!
As Jason said earlier, Christmas has come and gone, and all too quickly if you ask me. Time has worked in it's weird and funny ways, and as stolen another Christmas day from me. Our Christmas was wonderful this year, we enjoyed a lot of festivities, like champagne which was amazingly priced at 10 pounds a bottle, Quality Street tins, which I have eaten most of the toffee pieces out of, which are my favourite, but apparently no one else's (Hehe), and Mince Pie's which Jason loves, but I am not too hip on.
I surprised Jason with a new Disney Dopey plushie, which he loved and was extremely surprised about because I was naughty and put him in a hard plastic case and has paperclips inside so when he shook and felt his present it would throw him way off track as to what it was. I also got him so new scent of Cologne which he likes a lot I think since it's all he has worn for the past two days. I was lucky enough to get a bunch of different types of candies , from Toblerone chocolates to Haribo party packs, and have been munching down on all of them gradually. I was also extremely lucky to get the complete series of Six Feet Under, which I was always wanting to watch but missed the episodes since they were on at the usual time I had online classes. I have to say that I have really enjoyed the first season, as it has almost ended already. Jason says that the second season gets weirder and weirder, but I am sure I will still love it. Here is a small trailer for those of you who may be wondering what in the hell I am rambling on about.
Today Jason and I took a small stroll about the Churchill Square mall, which was overcrowded with what we Americans call "Mallrats" which were all of the people that went to the mall to see the excellent prices on everything, but really just ended up going inside with friends and having a great time looking at all the pretty coloured signs and wandering though the maze of people. As Jason said, there were a sea of individuals flowing thorughout the mall, but few people had bags with merchandise in them. Even though the prices are extremely low right now, people still seem to be leery about buying those good deals, probably in fear that at this rate, the item they are after will decline in price further and further until it's much cheaper later than it is now.
Cheers for now, enjoy the rest of the month of December, and stay warm. Look out for those good deals, which might seem to be a little bit too good to be true, but it may just be your lucky day.
More soon, that is unless the global economic crisis attacks even further and I can't afford the 2000 worth of lemons needed to power this laptop for half an hour! Till the next time, take care of yourself and each other and remember it's nice to be appreciated, but it's far more appreciated to be nice!
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