I'm up in Southwold yet again for the weekend. This time the main reason was to setup my parents new computer. They've got a nice Shuttle.

But this visit also conincided with Southwold's Christmas Light Switch On thing. Traditionally, Father Christmas arrives on some form of transport and then goes onto the town hall balcony and does a nice speech and talks to the kids and eventually turns the lights on.

This time, however, he went up and his words were "Merry Christmas everyone. Let's turn the lights on then, shall we? Everyone count with me. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1." The lights then turned on. "Lets sing some carols" said Father Christmas. After 4 carols (of which only the first verses were sung.) he said goodbye and left.

He didn't even do the whole "You didn't count loud enough" when the lights don't turn on first time. I feel cheated.