Baubles

I was once told that if you cut yourself on a Christmas tree bauble you would never stop bleeding. It may have been a lie but I've never dared to try it. I did however slice my finger ends on a headlight housing this week and they seem to leak blood regularly for the next several days. I got in the car on Friday and was not pleased that the previous occupant had got ketchup on the steering wheel. They hadn't. 

I was also told that if water which you have boiled eggs in, gets on your skin, it will give you warts. That isn't true in my experience. People don't seem to eat boiled eggs much any more which I think is a sad shame. I saw some very nice egg cups the other day and it filled me with regret that I didn't need them, as I could have put them on my Christmas list and helped my family with their present shopping. 
Today I made use of the very efficient online "click and collect" facility at Argos. I put the item number in my phone, left the phone on the table and headed off to town. It wasn't all that efficient. The assistant was marvelously helpful and urged me to pay in installments and spread the cost. I explained that I could pay in full. He continued to suggest I pay in installments. The APR is 29.9% no wonder he wanted me to pay in installments.
I thought about  Christmas. Jesus didn't pay in installments. In the Bible,the writer to the Hebrew people explained it like this  "Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process."