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Just put my Honda CRV in for it's first ITV (MoT). It failed on the hand brake! Apparently I have a plate on the vehicle, on to which I could attach a tow bar. I have no intention, ever, of having a tow bar fitted. My Mother in Law passed away many years ago, what else would I want to tow? Anyway, the ITV man said that as I could have a tow bar fitted in the future the hand brake has to be ratcheted up to be able to take the extra strain on a non existing 'extra'. I told him that in the extremely unlikely event that I would have a tow bar fitted, then I would upgrade the hand brake. Not good enough, got to have it done now. So it had to go into a garage and I paid to have it 'improved'. Crazy or what? Expecially when the original hand brake was a 'beast'! If I applied it the CRV could not pull away such was its strength. Ah well, sometimes the absurdity of things like this, in Spain, make me want to move somewhere else with a little more 'grey matter' employed on their policies. I now have my ITV and a hand brake that feels no different to a day ago!! I think I should have a blood transfusion on Monday just in case I have an accident in three or four years time....I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest....

I hear they are going to segregate a part of a beach on the CDS so it can be used for naturists. I could never be a naturist...I could never decide what not to wear.

Christmas is upon us. My wife wants one of those huge TV's, so I'm going to move her chair closer to the one we already have.

Last Christmas I only bought ethical gifts. I bought a goat for an African family. They got really upset. They live in the apartment above us.

Years ago I told my teenage son that we were going to watch his sister in the school nativity play. His question was, "What's the play all about then?"

He got fed up one year, his final year at school. "Why do they keep banging on about religion just lately?  Don't they know its Christmas time, can't they give it a rest?"

Always remember if you're flying home for Christmas, like me, in the next couple of days. There's nothing like an airport for bringing you down to earth.

I hope you have a lovely time over the Xmas & New Year period and beyond.