A very Happy Christmas to all my customers, blog friends and fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you all so much for all your support during the year, I really do appreciate it.

Virginia O’Hanlon had begun to doubt there was a Santa Claus because her friends had told her her he did not exist. Virginia wrote to the New York Sun newspaper as her father told her, if you see it in The Sun, it is so. The editorial “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” became one of the most reprinted english language editorials of all time.

Every year I tell myself that I will be organised this Christmas and every year I find myself running around like a mad woman a few days beforehand trying to get everything done.  But this year will be different!  This year I’m going to do all of my shopping from the comfort of my computer……. hmm [...]