Verbal High Fives

Christmas can be a stressful time of year; what with gift shopping, long queues everywhere, and prolonged exposure to relatives and/or Brussels sprouts. So to bring a bit of merriment to the situation, we thought we’d go carol singing as a random act of Christmas kindness.  When planning to go Carol singing, one must consider The distance you want to travel on foot The probability of people actually opening their front doors to you If you should go for modern or more traditional carols And whether to undergo comprehensive voice box surgery weeks beforehand.  But the most important consideration of all is presentation. And by presentation, I mean festive jazz hands.  In the end, we decided to go Caroling at local retirement centres because w e believed the elderly would truly appreciate festive jazz hands. Plus t hey are the generation least likely to unleash vicious dogs on us if they think we’re rubbish. As we gathered in the retirement centre di...

It is less than 1 week until Christmas; that curious time of year in which most humans of the masculine gender have yet to dedicate much mental activity to the topic “Christmas shopping.” The alarming spike in women receiving shower caps, air fresheners, or car windscreen wiper blades for Christmas can be traced back to modern man's last-minute approach to Christmas shopping - when, at around 10.30pm on Christmas Eve, many men initiate their shopping experience by driving to the nearest chemist or petrol station to purchase items that they think qualify as Christmas gifts women actually want . Ladies across the globe are already working themselves up into an advanced state of ire over the situation as they feverishly wrap the 72.5 Christmas gifts they bought (way back in October) for family, friends, neighbours, work colleagues, the postman, the cat, the dog, and gifts from the cat and dog too.  Women don’t understand why so many men seem to be unable to commence their Christm...