Where fiction and reality cross over

Boxing Day evening, have had a quiet but super day with an excellent dinner, BUT

Yesterday we had the X mas story of Jesus Christ, which led to our "Christian Festival" and the cause of all our chaos in the shops. Just who was wise / stupid enough to get up at 5 a.m. and queue to get in to the NEXT sale this morning ?

We tell our children all about Santa Clause, and Rudolph the red nose reindeer and they leave out their carrots and milk before the visit!!

We also tell of the tooth fairy and leave pennies under the pillow for that tooth that fell out in childhood.

This morning I was happy and content to watch the documentaries / movies about a V W Beetle car which won a NASCAR race ( Herbie) and a Zebra which won the Kentucky Derby ( Stripes). Me, I was happy, enjoyed it - it was fun and make belief / escapism.

Later it was "2012", the Apocalypse, the end of the world, which, following on to the " Day After Tomorrow" , which once again crosses over from imaginative to the possible.

Mid afternoon, a repeat of the Susan Boyle ( SuBo) documentary, where a most wonderfully gifted person, who has now made it into the public sphere, (despite lives adversities), and has proven by sales of over 1.4m CD,s that she has a magic gift and a world wide audience which will only increase through time.

BACK TO REALITY with a massive jolt, ------------ despite the Christmas spirit we still have thugs running riot in our neighbourhoods, terrorising the innocent and vulnerable, and all who should rightfully deserve their come uppers!!

This weekend we have had an assault on the Pope, and today we hear of an attempt to blow up a North West American airline by a Nigerian who had some form of incendiary substance impregnated into / onto his skin.
This person had entered the UK and was a student at London University - which now raises the issue of the number of foreign students, especially from India, Pakistan, and Africa entering the UK on so called study visas and then becoming entrapped/ recruited by the Al Queda group leading, possibly to what has just happened again.

Rightly and unfortunately this will lead to a further increase in airport security, etc. which obviously will again inconvenience travellers, and lead to greater costs for security. Shame is that for every newly recruited terrorist by Al Queda there are hundreds of perfectly innocent young people who come to us from overseas who just want to better themselves in life and wish no harm to anyone. For years, when working with the search teams etc, we always said that it took an incident to sharpen the mind, and again this is proven to be the case.

Not such a happy x mas message.