We all know the phrase and I can’t be the only one who’s fed up with hearing it.

Merry Christmas..?

So come on to all you hackneyed idiom deniers, all you free-thinking convention defiers; come blaze a trail with me. Sure, it’ll be a little more of a mouthful and it will probably even require a touch of brainpower to recollect in the early stages, but nothing worth changing is ever simple – just look at the new flag design and how easy that’s been to implement – so come on and say it with me now…

(For the benefit of simplicity I’ve cut it down, so it ought to roll right off the tongue.)

…Splendiferous Christmas and a Gay New Year, folks.

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Sven Duff Ross

Photography by Chris T Moss