Postponed

I tell you, those shops are going to be so busy on the 22nd!

I'm drawing the view from my bedroom window here. I can wake up in the morning and if the curtains are open I can check the time from the clock on the church over the road. Better still, at Christmas they put an animated Santa illumination up on the steeple so it looks like he's ringing the bells.

Festive

It's sad really, Snoopy and Schroeder bore placards and counted down the days to Beethoven's birthday, but Scrumpy counts down the days to the apocalypse. And the main difference between them is that Beethoven's birthday always happens, while the end of the world won't.

Nigh, I tell you! It's nigh!

No it isn't. Just because the Mayans need to buy a new calendar, it doesn't mean the world is coming to an end. It's a moot point anyway, the Mayans came to an end in the 8th and 9th centuries, so they overestimated the end of their civilization by about 1,200 year.

Scrumpy doesn't believe in the apocalypse either. He just recognises it as an easy way to make everyone else as miserable as him.