Xmas and New Year

The annual blow out of pseudo goodwill hgas been exchanged along with a chunk of money on presents, food that was binned and alcohol that was drunk twice.

The next round (pun entirely unintentional) is due in under a week – so guess my job will get a tad busier with Drink Drivers (DUIs), fighters, Domestic Abusers, Shoplifters and so on – it was starting before christmas and was will continue on into January and possibly February. The pleas of ‘It was only one…’ err bottle the size of a bar…’I was only going to the corner shop…to get my girl/wife/boy/hubby/bint/stud’, yep all the excuses will come out but break the law they did and so the penalty decreed must be served.

Shut up, get on with and keep your head down it will soon be over.

And no, it is not just the louts and the unemployed but the professionals the old the young – anyone really.

So coming up to the New Year or Hogmany as the Northern Celts (Scots) call it – bear in mind that to keep your car, to keep your partner, to stay alive if you are drinking DO NOT DRIVE it does no-one any good

I do though wish you all a Peaceful, Healthy and Prosperous New Year with all good things you would wish for yourself.

And for me that includes the government finally realsisng that breaking up probation services in the UK and farming them off to private profit driven concerns will cause little but danger to the public, excess stress to the employees and a ‘we told you so’ from the Unions.