I suppose I am about to state the most obvious line of this time of year, "I can't believe it's Christmas time already!"

Well actually I can't believe it, this year has been a haze of activity and small victories. If you think about it, what with global warming, Bird flu, Aids, Everton, Flash floods and airplane engines that fall off, to name but a few, it is a small victory for all of us to simply survive from one year to the next.

Those big clocks at the airports, ticking down to the World Cup 2010, don't help either. They are somehow sinister and scary. Every time I see them I've lost days off my life, it's like a second coming or something, "in 956 days FNB will take over the world!" well let's be honest that's more likely than Bafana Bafana doing it!