A Public Holiday That Actually Wasn't One.

The lure of Christmas lucre.

Last Friday I had found out about an impending public holiday that next day. Yikes, we had to scrape our shopping trip and make do ( with oodles to spare, as it turned out! ) with the food we had. Funny and a bit annoying to find out a few days later that even though it was a holiday, the shops at large all had their portals open.

I should have known that it would be hard to turn down a chance of grabbing holiday crazed shoppers' money. Maybe just as well that we didn't hotfoot it into Oberwart as it must have been hectic and overpopulated with irate and impatient Christmas shoppers.

This time of the year in particular we are inundated with adverts on TV and advertising literature in our postbox. Bob and I are still eccentrically old school by preferring to browse and shop in real shops. More than the actual grocery shopping we undertake in Oberwart, it is the lure of browsing that we enjoy...and of course lunch at our favourite Chinese restaurant.

How does one shop for perfume online? Going into stores to test the various perfumes and then going home to order them online isn't very fair at all. Bad karma indeed, although many do without loosing any sleep over it.

Well, the next public holidays will be in less than two weeks time and thankfully those are the real deal with shops closed and their staff having a well deserved time off before the dreaded Boxing Day returns.

Biggi