Pretty Close To £1,500 Pounds So Far This Xmas ...

It's the shortest day of the year, yet for me it's been one

of the best and busiest days of this otherwise somber

Christmas on the last Friday before Christmas Day. It

started early for me this morning at just after 7:00am as

old customers and friends seemed to pop-up from nowhere

all together and leave me overjoyed with their gifts and

cash ... It started with James Bradbury who not only gave

me 50 quid but also $US100.00 to go towards my dash to

America should I go to see Contessa Maria there after her

broken hip has now been fixed.

Then it was Paul and Neil Davenport who gave me two

fifty quid banknotes as crisp as the morning frost. Thank

you so much you guyz for your kind generosity!! And

before I knew what had hit me, there was another old

customer of mine who I'd not seen in ages. She was none

other Sue Kelly with a lovely Xmas card with yet another

£50.00 enclosed in two twenties and a five. Next came

Maureen Garfield, an American lady from Maryland and

who lives in London, who promptly handed me a brand

new 20 pound note. As the day wore on, I was bedazzled

by the money rolling in and the gifts galore. By 12 noon, I

had 27 cards and 19 gifts. While, Cymru Television then

came and interviewed me on the spot or at my pitch for all

to see ... Talk about being a celebrity!! Some folkz thought

for a moment I was. Remember we no longer have 15 minutes

of fame, we get only 15 seconds thesedays just like me today.

Christmas has finally arrived for me after all the doom

and gloom of the past two weeks. I'm now about even

compared to my figures from last Christmas. Whether

today's blockbuster is just a one day oddity, I'll soon see

tomorrow being the last Saturday before the big day.

If I do well then, I shall feel alot more optimistic
about Xmas 2oo7 ...

Then came Nick Alfrey with a twenty for me. Fiona Sloss,

too, gave me such. The list goes on and on today with a

total of £431.00 given to me by those wonderful cus-

tomers of mine in the 7 hours I was at my Big Issue

pitch today. If only every day was like today,

I would then soon be a millionaire!!

Others who have given to me of gifts and cash during

this Christmas period include some of the following: Jill

Ferguson, Dan Ryman, Nigel and Fiona Ballard, Paul

Martin-Davies, Jon and Linda Annetts, Peter Roberts,

Shirley Ginsie, Jonathan Stoleman, Sham Gulpur, Ann

Morris, Jan Allen, Jan Mol, Kevin Cloud, John Lroughair,

Kyle Davidson, Richard Offer, Steve Foley, Mary Anderson,

Jenny Shoemaker, Gary Simms, Lloyd Dobson, Sharon Tate,

Marge Renfrew, Eric Chippendale and numerous others who I

don't know by their names. In any event, I'm simply so grateful

to all of the those folkz for finally making my Christmas seem

once again so special like it should always be ... My aim now

is to break the £2,000 mark by Christmas Eve ... His blessings

I'm assured no matter what!!

Keep warm, Monty. Three Dayz To Xmas, 2007.