Christmas is a coming

I have often wondered about Christmas, I like it per se, but wonder if we really need it in our lives.
It is a stressful time where people spend money they clearly dont have and it leads to that dark abyss that is January, god how i hate that month.
Maybe the Good Lord in is wisdom decided to punish us for our December avarice by inflicting January on us, penance and all that.
Back to Christmas, the Aussies have it right they have it in the middle of summer, now that makes sense to me, a holiday when its warm and you have a lovely warm month to follow., so it does not matter if you are skint, you can still get a tan.
Probably we suffer because we live on a small island in Northern Europe where the weather is miserable mostly and more than likely if we had Christmas day on June 25th it would snow, or there would be widespread flooding, or foot and mouth and probably all 3 with a dose of Chicken flu in the mix just to make sure we knew our place.

Yeah, lets enjoy December 25th .....