Dancing with the (GAA) stars…and how to safely store the Christmas decorations!
I just love it!
Huh?
The fact that it’s back…and it’s gonna be every weekend from now on! Woohoo!
Eh…
I was so excited! Watching the stars come out to play!
Oh yeah…
Dazzling us with their twists and turns, their clever moves, their stepovers, their jinks!
YES!
They’re SO fit!
Eh…absolutely!
I can’t wait for all the weekends to come…this is precisely what we need now!
I know, I know…
Of course we’ll ALL judge them…
Indeed…
And we’ll chat about the controveries next morning, led by the radio show hosts…
Yep…
I just can’t get enough of it!
SAME HERE!
I’m LOVING the returned GAA season!
GAA? I thought you were talking about Dancing with the Stars!
(Editor sighs and shuffles boyos’ draft contract on his desk)
(They pause to turn down the radio on hearing yet another reference to the ‘plight’ of Novak Djokovic)
So…why the long face?
Oh, just the usual feelings at this time of year…
The long evenings? Cold weather? January blues?
I call it the SOD phase…
SOD?
Storing our decorations…
Huh?
We took our Christmas decorations down at the weekend…
Of course…
Well, not OF COURSE. Some people are leaving them up for all of January – again – as an anti-pandemic gesture.
Mmnn…
In fact, there’s a guy up our road who doesn’t take them down ‘til May – and he puts them back up in September!
You’re joking!
Nope!
Why? Does he absolutely love Christmas?
No, he’s just a bit funny…
You live on a funny road…
I know.
Anyways…tell me about this SOD…
Well, we have the decorations down, but now it’s my job to store them away…safely. Store our decorations!
Go on…
Every year I try to avoid a crisis the following Christmas…it’s a nightmare ploughing through rubbish in the shed or attic in search of the previous year’s decorations.
Didn’t I tell you last year to just label them?
Yeah, I DID label them, but I couldn’t remember if I put them in the attic or the shed!
Well label them, put them SOMEWHERE, take a photo on your phone, and calm down!
Great! So I’ll go from SOD to yet another POD!
Huh?
PHOTOGRAPH our decorations! POD!
Exactly! By the way, do you see much of that funny neighbour of yours?
Not really. His garden is full of scary Halloween decorations all year, we tend to avoid it!
Oh dear!
(They pause to turn down the radio on hearing yet another reference to Dancing with the Stars; suddenly they kind of miss the Novak Djokovic updates)
So…any word on our contract talks?
Huh?
Your discussions with the Editor about POSSIBLY renewing our contract…
Oh yeah…
You promised me you’d negotiate spectacularly improved terms…
Eh…yeah…of course…
So, any news?
Well, I rang the Editor’s office a few times…
Yeah…?
He was on a call.
EVERY time you rang?
He’s a busy man! Leave it with me! Meantime, what a performance by Padraig Pearses!
Yep! Our dancing stars of the week!
