  With only a few days to go till crimbo we still have had xmas shopping to do in the Dawe household.
 So we got up nice and early this morning to beat the rush and avoid the queue's.  and we only just made it.  Tonight will be making a visit to a family friends to have a few tins and exchange gifts,  and then come home to be subjected to some really bad xmas tv.  That is one thing you are garenteed from crimbo its that TV will have endless repeats and tacky films.
 And to cop that yet another episode of 'only fools'.  in which the BBC have said that this will be the final for one for sure.  But didn't they say that after the episode in which they found a watch and became millionaires?  It all seems like flogging a dead horse to me,  shame though. i quite liked the show up till then.  Alternative Christmas carol By Chris Charles,  BBCi News ( With apologies to Noddy Holder)  JONNY CHRISTMAS Are you lining up the goalposts with the ball?  Are you driving all those Aussies up the wall?  Will you kick it with your left foot?  Perhaps you'll use your right Then hoof it up away and out of sight CHORUS:
 So here it is,  Jonny Christmas -  all the Pommies having fun Look at the Aussies now,  we've got them on the run When you're waiting in the pocket at the death A nervous nation quietly holds its breath Your mama's stuck in Tesco's Doesn't want to know the score Your dad can't bear to watch you any more So here it is Jonny Christmas,  all the Pommies having fun Look at the Aussies now,  we've got them on the run What will the Aussies do when they see you lining up another one?  Oh dear,  oh dear When the kick goes over,  you all go insane Cos life will never be the same again Take a bus ride round the city,
 have a teacake with the Queen Waiting to be told it's all a dream So here it is Jonny Christmas,
 all the Pommies having fun Look at the Aussies now,
 we've got them on the run TO FADE.
