“We’re all goin’ on’a, winter holiday, no more workin’ for a week or two…” Probably.

We’re probably going on holiday. On Christmas Day. Tenerife. All planned, booked and even paid for at least 3 waves ago. On Boxing Day Lila and Joey are coming to meet us there, probably bringing their mum & dad, not sure. And the ‘rogue’ daughter is flying over from Berlin to hook up with us too. It’s all very exciting. Until you hear those dreaded words: ‘Boris is making an announcement tonight’. Then it all gets rather more stressful.

I should actually be more concerned with Spanish announcements. Probably proclaiming that they don’t want no stinkin’ Brits comin’ over with their Omicrons, but you know that most countries don’t go into knee-jerk mode every time someone sticks a cotton bud up their nose.

On Sunday was Boris’s last announcement. But he mentioned neither me nor Tenerife specifically. All he mentioned was ‘boosters’. And mentioned them 427 times in a 6-minute announcement. If there was a prize for blond-haired tubs of lard saying the word ‘boost’, our PM would definitely win, hands down. Unfortunately that’s about the only competition he could win.

There are more announcements on the horizon. More specifically about travel. And although it makes no sense for us to have to ‘quarantine’ upon our return from a fairly covid-free place, back to Omicron Central, logic and Boris, where coronavirus is concerned, remain strangers.

I am not paying 3 grand to spend 10 days locked in a 6 foot by 8 foot room in the Holiday Inn Express getting junk food delivered 3 times a day. It’s just not good value. I have no real issues with spending time in cheap hotels nor eating junk food, that’s why we’re going to Tenerife, but its worth about 250 quid at most. I’m thinking of starting an ‘Mis-selling’ class action litigation against the government.

And today Sajid Javid said that quarantining will actually be stopped for returning holidaymakers. Which makes so much sense, they probably won’t do it. Because WE have the highest rate in the world. WE seem to be ‘the problem’. Not much point quarantining us here.

I’ve got my suitcase out and placed a pair of swimming trunks in it. And that’s all I’m prepared to do until Christmas Eve.

Happy Hopeful Holidays

A xxxx