Bursting for Wii!

The kids revealed their Christmas shopping wish lists over weekend. And they both have their birthdays in December so it's doubly whammy on the cash front.

Apparently Wiis are this year's must have gizmo so it's a thankless haul around Currys (nope) and the internet (yes but only if you're prepared to be fleeced) and the wife is getting worried about the little cherubs' faces on Christmas morn.

(For the uninitiated Wiis are the game consoles where you use the hand control like a tennis racquets gold club machine gun)

And there's still more than a month and a half to go.

The days of a tin drum, a tangerine and a bag of nuts have long gone. If this goes on I may have to consolidate my debts into one sustainable loan (yeah, right like that's going to happen)

I suppose I might have been indulged at Christmas. I remember once getting a Johnny Seven which was the Wii of 1967 (I think) with seven guns built into one - and is also unsurprisingly available for a small fortune on ebay. But what isn't?

You don't see kids with guns these days (at least not outside US campus sites) as it's not politically correct. Yet somehow despite having a Johnny 7 and a Secret Sam (briefcase with hidden guns and daggers) I so far have resisted the urge to carry out small scale massacres.

But while the toy guns are unfashionable, violence isn't. Some of the shoot 'em up video games (Halo 2 fr'instance) contain hideous violence while others involve driving cars around Miami and shooting cops, pimps, hooker and pedestrians. But at £40 a pop psupporting a multi million £ business who's going to ban them?

Merry Christmas, ho ho ho