Darkest Before Dawn

Sunday Christmas shopping in Edinburgh is going well. At the moment I am taking a break for a coffee & a sticky bun.
The choice of coffee shops & consessions is large, like most towns & cities in the UK I guess. I chose this one got the view across to Edinburgh Castle.
So far I think [...]

I have heard “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” several times already this month and who knows how many times I have heard it throughout my life.
Yet it was only the other day that it suddenly struck me, the other reindeer, what a shower of bastards!
First they pick on poor Rudolph for his deformity, then [...]