Or does it just leave you feeling blue?
Perhaps you can't afford things because you are in the red but hoping that everything will eventually be all white.
Yes Black Friday descended upon us like a marketing sledgehammer. But don't worry if you missed it, Black Friday will continue all year.
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Yesterday I popped into Norwich for another quick look around Waterstones as I still have a voucher burning a hole in my wallet - whatever that means.
Once again I came out empty handed. The huge choice of books simply confuses me. I just can't decide. They were piled high and in a secret area underneath the escalator, which I'm sure you aren't supposed to see, there were more piles of books that haven't even made it into the shop displays yet.
Waterstones also sells games and once again there were board (bored) games of all shapes and sizes covering virtually every topic known to man.
We truly do live in a disposable society where we are flooded with literature, music and much else.
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The saga of the train ticket rebate continues. I think I last mentioned it when we had been asked to send pictures of the train tickets torn or cut up. This we did. Back came another request for photographs of the tickets for the whole journey. At this point the other threequarters decided enough was enough and off she marched to Norwich Station in an attempt to get some sense out of somebody face to face.
You'll never guess what she came away with? Actually you probably will. Yes she came away with another form to fill in because they no longer deal with rebates at the station. This form has a pouch to insert the tickets into.
My guess is we will fill it in and post it off and they will come back asking for photographs of the tickets. The word incompetence doesn't even touch the sides when it comes to Greater Anglia. When they say you might be entitled to compensation what they mean is you might be entitled to compensation if you can jump through numerous hoops.
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Sometimes you just stare at a news item on television and just can't believe the nonsense you are hearing.
BBC Look East had a lengthy piece about the wonky Christmas tree of March in Cambridgeshire. Apparently photos of it have gone viral. For goodness sake, it's a slightly bent Christmas tree. In the past it would have been rejected for being sub standard. Now it's a celebrity tree.