This year I have been becoming progressively more environmentally conscious and as Christmas approaches I have been trying to buy presents that are either secondhand or involve some aspect of recycling. But most of all I have been trying to avoid lots of car journeys to get the Christmas shopping.
Well today we had to get some of the things we need for Christmas from Tesco at Westwood Cross so we braved the inevitable traffic jam and started battling through the crowds.
I became increasingly aware just how very unpleasant it was I am afraid to say that after about half an hour with only 20% of the Christmas food shopping done we paid for what we had done and ran away back top Ramsgate where we did the rest.
The madness of crowds? I just don’t know.
Well today we had to get some of the things we need for Christmas from Tesco at Westwood Cross so we braved the inevitable traffic jam and started battling through the crowds.
I became increasingly aware just how very unpleasant it was I am afraid to say that after about half an hour with only 20% of the Christmas food shopping done we paid for what we had done and ran away back top Ramsgate where we did the rest.
The madness of crowds? I just don’t know.
I should add that all of the Tesco staff were both charming and helpful and I suspect no more wanted to be part of the great machine that is modern shopping than anyone else.
There is a general feeling in the air that it is time to re:do (to spell in gen x style) the whole Christmas thing. Perhaps with less mas and more... ?
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas story even taken outside of any religious context certainly doesn’t seem to tally with the promotion of mass consumerism. For the most part we have to face the fact that we are a secular country spending a fortune celebrating a religious festival. Back to the story, which is about a young couple forced outside of the law by impossible government.
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