A Student's Life Extra: Christmas Special
It's not every day that the four powers of Bellclose Road come together, and when they do, I'm sorry to say it normally ends in something of a mess. Never an intentional mess mind, but a mess that if we go near an underground station, generally involves David, an escalator, and a bald man.
The less said about David's last bald-man-on-the-underground incident the better.
So anyway, there we were one cold winter's eve - Procrastination, Laziness, Pessimism and Git - shopping in Uxbridge for our very first Bellclose Road Christmas decorations.
An exciting time, I'm sure you'd agree.
Unfortunately we made the mistake of forgetting to take David out with his reins, and before any of us knew it, it was closing time in the Uxbridge Pavilions and we had lost our David to a strange and potentially dangerous world.
None of us could possibly cope with the sombre task of telling the Snoddy family we had lost their favourite son, so it was at this point we did only what any loving parents would do: we called security.
Ten minutes and one very angry branch manager later, we had our David returned to us. It was at this point that the shopping-centre staff were all queuing to leave and we had still yet to pay for our shopping! It seemed the excitement of shiny beads and musical fairy lights had just been too much for our poor innocent David, and he had been enticed away from his carers by some particularly shiny red beads which he just insisted we buy before we could possibly leave.
Everyone in the shop sighed - including the manager. I just sank deeper into my coat, and pulled my Santa hat just that little bit further down my head. I would never have thought that Jack and the Beanstalk would have held such deep meaning, but if ever there was a candidate for a Jack that sold his cow for a collection of magic beans, it would be our David.
Merry Christmas.