Season's Greetings.

I always knew that the acid test of whether writing D&OiS&L had worked (i.e. whether it had exorcised the demons I had intended it to) would be my Yuletide reaction to this song. While I have to admit that it did stir a pot of unpleasant memories when it came on the radio a couple of days ago, I sat through the whole thing with a contemptuous smirk on my face rather than shaking with rage as had happened so often before.

In fact so successful has it been in lancing the boil (and mixing the metaphors) that I can't even summon up the necessary venom to write a blog post about how I discovered that my leading lady (the girl I called 'Sally Spencer') was shackled to a notorious wife-beater - a guy who beat his first wife up on the first night of their honeymoon!
Tell me Sally, does he take care not to mark your face? Do you think that makes him incredibly caring? And do you think you'll ever find a guy who doesn't cheat on you?