Sorry but this is very apt and just shows one of the problems that Santa is having this year. Way back in March he had to lay off a few of his Elves as there were not enough orders coming in for this year’s production. Then around June he found out that two of his reindeer were pregnant and wouldn’t be able to do the Christmas run. No time to acquire and train up new staff so he would have to call in some of his recently retired staff to man the sleigh this year and you know what these 50+ers are like- cantankerous lot at the best of times.

By September he was getting worried as the supply of good quality Chromoly double butted steel for his better quality toys had dried up and he had to make do with Aluminium. Come November he started training the reindeer and he found out that the new sleigh had a couple of cracks around the runners and the repair man got a shock when he found out that Carbon Fibre does not like a welding gun. Luckily- DHL managed to supply his replacement that he got from PBK in just a few days and The chief account—Wobbly Old Geezer- was so shocked at this that he fell off his stool and broke his leg.

Then the start of December and Mrs Claus got a strop on when she found out that the January sales had started and forced Santa to take two days out to help her with the shopping. She managed to get a Trek Madone WDS in Blue but had a problem fitting a pump to the frame so Santa had to get on the internet to find the pump that would fit such a small frame and found a Topeak Mini-Morph For sale cheap- only to find it was a Taiwanese copy and didn’t work.

Still enough time to get everything sorted for the Christmas deliveries---Except Rudolph has an accident when he fell off the back of a lorry and suffered road rash and a broken antler.

Then just as he got all the toys loaded- the Christmas fairy turned up with the 20 ft tree but it was not the Non-Drop kind and asked him where she should put it.

And that is why we have a fairy on top of the Christmas tree this year