There seem to be more shortages than ever this Christmas; there’s no honey apparently because it was a tough summer for bees (well you might need some) and money is clearly in short supply thanks to the credit crunch.
Also mistletoe is going to be thin on the ground too, no doubt also to do with global warming or some such.
It’s doubtful if this will lead inexorably to a consequent shortage of snogging opportunities as humans are a tough old lot who just get on with these things whatever the circumstances.
But mistletoe is one of those things that reminds us that the timing of Christmas is an old pagan thing (Jesus was apparently actually born around Easter, but let’s not go there), the old winter solstice festival when everyone got drunk and behaved badly as there was bugger all else to do with about two hours of daylight.
So try to find a sprig if you can.
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One Comment
Get it right!
There’s a glut of mistletoe this season, not a shortage.
The scare story about a shortage (as featured in yesterday’s Telegraph for example) was about shortages in, er, 20 or so years’ time because of poor management of mistletoe-bearing trees.
Always helps to actually read the articles, not just the headlines…