Inflatable Snowmen
Not only is the electric consumption of Didcot increasing due to the vast number of unnecessary lit adornments to houses, but the good burghers are indulging in on-upmanship with their lawn displays.
Inflatable snowmen! They are appearing across Didcot (and I suspect other places). So bloody large they need to be tethered down! Why does anyone see the need to spend a fortune on external lights that:
Inflatable snowmen! They are appearing across Didcot (and I suspect other places). So bloody large they need to be tethered down! Why does anyone see the need to spend a fortune on external lights that:
- cause accidents (car drivers stopping to gawp)
- increase power consumption and thus acid rain and global warming
- look incredibly tasteless (OK, not to may taste)
- cause light pollution
- could well be defined in civil law as a nuisance
As for the snowmen, I really want to go around the town late one night and slit the tethers, just to see the majestic sight of hundreds of the things floating into the horizon (more likely into the flight path of the nearest UFO or soldiers returning from Iraq to Abingdon).
Humbug. Humbug. Humbug, Mr Baldrick?
posted by Jonathan | Tuesday, December 07, 2004
2 Comments:
You could re-enact that fine Christmas tune, Walking in the Air, Didcot style. You could star as Aled Jones and float above the pylons and cooling towers, hand in hand with a plastic snowman. Lovely.
Obviously a different class of drug in Birmingham!
A prat near us had a 6 foot plastic Father Christmas doing a cartwheel over his front porch. Dan always wants to get out of the car next to the house and kick the Santa very hard.
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