Golden globes

On the day: 
20/06/2012 


On the way: 
The goose is getting fat, it would appear. Which must make for very sweaty geese in this weather. 
Colleagues have begun to report book-early-for-Christmas advertisements and there is evidence on the train. 
Her airy shirt could be a post-modern leopard print with a spattering of sequins, her claws gold. Her well-developed lower mandible masticates implacably. And suspended from her earlobes, a pair of golden globes presumably pilfered from the Christmas decorations box.
That just seems more likely than that she selected them deliberately out of the wide range on offer at a jewellery store, and paid actual money for them with the intention of wearing them in public on a sunny June morning. 
It's not that they are hideous, more that their timing could not have been much more inappropriate as pagan families come together to celebrate the summer solstice. 
Oh, well, please put a penny in the old man's hat anyway. With just 164 shopping days to Christmas, he should be able to afford the fattest goose in the shop by December 25. 


On the pod: 
Dreams - Van Halen 


On the front page: 
Taxman v Take That