This 1988 US release "B" side is not technically a Christmas record, but in many families this was the result of some Christmas activities. When I was a teenager in the days of restricted
opening hours, I was told that the Pubs were open all day on Christmas Eve, to this day I do not know if it was true as in my first job in 1969 we worked late Christmas Eve, I seem to remember we finished at 21.00, by the time I got home changed and got ready t go out it had gone 22.00, I would get down the Pub sober to find my friends well oiled, I knew who was with who, so when a few months later the pregnancies were coming to light, I probably knew who the father was although most of the girls had no clue to who it was, well I met my younger sister who was with her boy friend, the told me they were going to a party by getting out late I missed out on the party's, like many people at that time we did not have a phone so there was no way of letting your family know what you were doing if your original plans changed, I got home at a reasonable hour, I think the rest of the family were asleep in bed. The next morning my mother asked me "did you see your sister last night, she didn't come home" I replied "I saw her at about 22.30 at the Jolly Brewers, with her boyfriend, and she told me they were going to a party", to which her reply was "Oh", the Christmas festivities continued, Breakfast, Christmas Dinner with no sign of my sister, at about 16.30-17.00 we were watching the TV my Mother dozing off in her chair, when the back door burst open and I heard " Hello mum I went to a party last night I have just come home to change as I'm off to another party". within 5 minuets she was in cloths changed and out again, as she left closing the back door behind her, my mother opened her eyes and asked was that ******, again she just said "Oh", the same scenario happened every day for over a week, she finally returned home on the 2nd January and things went back to normal. In March she uttered the painful words "Mum, I'm Pregnant" mother was not pleased, 3 other girls that I knew and met that fateful Christmas Eve had also got themselves Pregnant.
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