The period between Dec 27th and the 30th has a strange unhappy limbo feel, particularly as this year’s Christmas break involves a few days’ extension due to the two Eves falling at the weekend. Some people are still staying with their families, and are starting to regret it. Others are getting impatient with the general slowing down of business and of life. Hurry up with New Years’ Eve, they cry. Anything other than these floating, bloated, aimless final days of December.
There’s a pervading sense of wanting to cut to the chase. Saddam Hussein is hurriedly hanged today, and it’s reported as if his main crime is just being on the To Do list during this most fidgety week of the year. The Telegraph reports the late dictator’s choice of breakfast cereal while awaiting the inevitable: Raisin Bran Crunch. ‘But he objected to the sickly sweet Froot Loops.’
