Special Guest Blogger: The Ghost of Christmas Past

I won't lie, things are getting far busier each year than we were expecting. When the three of us first started out it was so much easier for us.
There were not so many rich, mean people around, so we could spend so much more time with one miser, and see a definite improvement in their behaviour after showing them the error of their ways, give them something to think about but now they know what to expect and for that i blame Charles Dickens.
Our work would be a lot easier to carry out if people did not know about us in advance, the element of surprise is gone.
Now they just see our work as being something we do around Christmas time and once they receive the visit from their dead business partner they are prepared which makes it even worse, you would expect them to be able to put on the kettle on or even get a decent supply of chocolate digestives in, but they never think of that.
It's thirsty, thankless work, the amount of misers whose lives we have improved but do any of us get a thank you letter, or just some basic recognition for our efforts? Like heck we do but i don't know how much longer we can keep doing it, the amount of extremely poor people is growing exponentially and due to the nature of Capitalism, the money is becoming concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.
If it continues much longer, there will be not enough Ebenezer Scrooge's for us to visit, only a lot of Bob Crachitt's, and he is already a top bloke so there will be no fun in getting him to change.