holidays

(I wrote a whole long and detailed post, then lost it... So now I'm just going to a brief summary!) Macaca Mulatta finally recorded their debut album on Sunday, it's only taken me 2 years to get to doing it and then it took us 6 hours to record 9 songs! In a Child Care Centre... [See some pictures here](https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67691&id=601440566). It was Cup day on Tuesday, everyone gets a bizarre midweek weekend for a horse race, and gets very drunk... Cate and I got up to all sorts of things including a [snail race](https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67690&id=601440566) and a BBQ, where a la...

That time of year is upon us, whether it be Christmas, 'The Holidays', Festivus, or whatever else you decide to call it. It's here, loud, everywhere and in your face. Over the past years and have liked this time of year less and less, with increasing passion, and sick of people calling me 'grumpy', 'a Grinch', 'Scrooge' and other sorted insults, it felt like time to explain my point of view and problems with this time of the year. ## What's it about? Is it about the birth of Christ? Supposed...