tinyswirl

Despite having a minor moan about working in retail in the run up to Christmas in my last post I’m still feeling strangely upbeat about the whole thing. Maybe it’s because I know my parents got me something from my Amazon wishlist…

So I’ve spent the day dressed as a Christmas star (even if no one could work out that was what I was meant to be) packed bags for people, dodged shopping trolleys and getting frustrated at those people who steer just randomly enough for you not be able to slip past their daydreaming-butts. At least there was no rude customers and my PDA played nicely. Now I’m sat in someone else’s house, listening to Hancock’s Half-Hour, making up a ‘blog entry as I go along.

Now here’s something that has annoyed me today. In fact the whole case bugs the hell about me. It’s awful that any child goes missing, I do hope that the lassie is found safe and well (although it doesn’t seem likely now, really). Of course, the big thing that irritates me is that her parents basically neglected their children and their actions (or non-action, I guess) put three children at risk – last time I heard, that in itself was a criminal act – and I think that people from a less-well-off social setting may have had a completely different reaction from The Media.

All children are special, it’s simple as and it’s bad, bad, bad that so many people wilfully hurt so many every day. But why should a reward be offered for her safe return, when it isn’t for others? What’s “special” about Madeleine’s case is that her parents have used the media to their own advantage and, like the beast that it is, the press may well soon decide to bite them when they least expect it… there already seems to be a scent of “they doth protest too much” in the air now. I guess it’s a case of “Beware the paps and hacks!”

It’s sad, I can’t imagine how it is to lose a child, whether through such a tragic mistake that the McCanns made, or through accident or illness but having such a media show around them isn’t doing them or, more importantly, their young twins, any good. I know for sure it wouldn’t do my head any good for something like this to be never ending, ever circulating around me.

Sadly they aren’t the only family who will have one less member of their family to buy a gift for this Christmas.

Ok so now I’m not feeling so great about Christmas after all.