Assembly Line

For those of us with children and the arrival every Christmas of Santa Claus and his swag of toys you will no doubt appreciate the often unsung hero of Christmas, the daddy.

Who while he may not be able to take any credit for Santa's toy he should surely get a reward for his ability to assemble the lot of em, sometimes in a very short space of time. I for my sins have done it all down through the years. The dolls house, the full size kitchen, the 20 speed bikes, trikes, scooters, go-carts, the new fad three wheeler trikers that would kill a child if not assembled correctly.

I've done a full size trampoline with safety netting, a 30ft swimming pool and must recently an 8ft soccer net that wouldn't look out of place on the hallowed grounds of Anfield. If radio ever goes pear shaped for me then I've a ready made career ahead as an assembly man. Me and thousands of other dads like me! So never mind your "Women's little Christmas", spare a thought for the true hero of Christmas. The self assembly dad!

GR8 Christmas

My final observation on Christmas and the New Year has to be the record breaking 41 million texts that were sent in Ireland on New Years Eve. What's that about? Are we gone that completely banana's?

If O2, Vodafone and Meteor got in to the spirit of things they might have gone for free texts all new years' days, but none of it. I figured it worked out about ten texts for each and every one of us in Ireland, not a lot by the sounds of it. But the texting is getting earlier every year with most of mine arriving across lunchtime and the early afternoon!

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