Your astrological week ahead for December 28th, with Psychic Bob

Aries, March 21st–April 19th

A little-known fact about fighting on the roof of a train is you must also then reach reconciliation on the same roof of the same train.

Taurus, April 20th–May 20th

“We’ve not been going out long, so I bought him a Porsche Carrera for Christmas. Oh f**k, is that too much?”

Gemini, May 21st–June 21st

In Scotland they call New Year ‘Hog Money’. It’s a time when they give all their hard-earned cash to a massive, threatening pig called Hamish.

Cancer, June 22nd–July 22nd

…and here’s the little pile of presents that are being taken back.

Leo, July 23rd–August 22nd

Millennials and Gen-Z are famously too shy to talk on the phone. If you want to hear their thoughts and voices, you have to listen to their podcasts.

Virgo, August 23rd–September 22nd

How do posh women get into interior design? Do they just move a lamp and go ‘Woah, I’m good at this.’

Libra, September 23rd–October 22nd

Why not ditch your Christmas tree out behind the shed today, to beat the January rush?

Scorpio, October 23rd–November 22nd

Weird that Simon is a biblical name but I guess there were twats knocking about then, too.

Sagittarius, November 22nd–December 21st

‘Now which is meant to be the decent one, OBE or MBE?’ is a great way to belittle those who have either.

Capricorn, December 22nd–January 19th

When pantomime stars throw sweets at the audience, they’re reaching four per cent of the audience who catch perhaps 12 per cent of the sweets. The inefficiency is off the scale.

Aquarius, January 20th–February 18th

“You’d imagine mining communities were glad Thatcher shut down their pits. It sounds like an awfully dirty and dangerous way to make a living.”

Pisces, February 19th–March 20th

War is over, if you’re not fussed either way.

This week in Mash History: Group of shepherds trip absolute balls, 0 AD

IN every nativity play, shepherds tending their flock are informed of Jesus’s birth by ‘a multitude of the heavenly host’, as it was written in the Gospel according to Luke.

But did you know that Luke fails to mention the common recreational practices of shepherds during winter solstice was to ingest copious amounts of psychedelics?

Because while miraculous events did indeed take place that night, historians now believe the true miracle is that the shepherds, post-angelic visit, were able to get up and walk with stunning amounts of narcotics coursing around their systems.

This holy trip is recorded in a disputed Gospel draft known as ‘Luke’s Rough Version’. It reads: “As it doth did get quite boring staying up all night tending to sheep, Macca did score us the root of the Judean desert cactus, also known as Bongo Patties.

“And the shepherds did that night decide to partake of the substance to pass the time. And it was good.

“But lo, as they contemplated a munchie run, the mountains were illuminated by the radiance of many holy angels, even such to only one among their number had the presence of mind to declare ‘oh shite, the rozzers’.

“And the shepherds did curse the obtainer of the substance for providing much too strong a dose.

“The angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people’. But lo, the shepherds were yet afraid, for they were witnessing a giant f**k-off angel in the f**king sky.

“So the shepherds did descend from the hills and converge on a stable claiming to be on orders from the Lord, which many awakened gentlefolk of Bethlehem did not appreciate.

“Eventually, they did barge in upon a newborn baby, whom they declared sore amazing, the light of the world and the lamb of God before they did lose consciousness in the hay. And when they awoke they swore never again.”

And so this night was eventually recorded in the gospels as part Christianity’s holiest night, though the main teaching for the shepherds was to take a half-dose next time.

Next week: to 1645, when Oliver Cromwell bans Christmas rather than go to his f**king showoff brother-in-law’s house.