The Controversial Post

When we move into December i always like to write light and fluffy Christmas related posts on this blog but of course that doesn't mean that awful things stop in the World just because the Christmas trees and fairy lights are up and my blogging partner sent me a story to write up which really didn't come under the light and fluffy banner.
A discussion then ensued with him saying it is an important issue and as we are a 'current affairs' blog then it should be covered regardless of the month while my take was that 'current affairs' is only one part of the blog and we cover anything and everything as well from the silly to the serious and we spend 11 months banging on about how awful things are so we should have one month when it’s not.
I did offer to find an angle which allowed me to find some humour in it but it isn't really that sort of story so we dismissed that and i even resorted to he could write it but again he refused as 'i'm not the writer, you are' so i said i would write it and post date it to January but by then the story would have obviously moved on and it would be out of date by then so that was dismissed.
After a while i just said nope, December is for light and fluffy and folded my arms across my chest and dug in my heels.
Thinking about it later i did feel kinda bad that i just refused to even entertain his story so i knocked on his door and apologised and said i would spin out a shorter, 350 word post as a compromise and we agreed and we moved on to drinking mulled wine and sharing a couple of mince pies.
So this is the disputed post but unfortunately by now I am up to word 323 so I am really going to have to go some to fit the story into the remaining 8 words so sorry Rev, but I did try.