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Update: Heard it on 6 December. Hurrah. Christmas can now officially start!
Despite having spent the last three days trotting around all the shopping centres that Manchester and Cheshire have to offer - in the hunt for a new pair of spectacles actually! - and spending countless hours on shopping websites, I still don’t quite feel [...]

I had to head into town to do a little last-minute Christmas shopping (with my hectic schedule this week, today was actually the last lunchtime I realistically had to pick up last-minute bits and pieces).
So thus, while I was carrying my pack of toilet paper across the city centre, really annoying sales people kept interrupting [...]

Joining in on blog cliche no.173, the first ugly sign of Christmas reared itself into my ordinary life today when, having a coffee at a train station waiting with someone, the music playing was a cover version of Silent Night.
For goodness’ sake, Halloween isn’t even over yet.
I had a false start earlier this month when [...]

There I was, getting ready for a day of being Birthday’ed/Christmas’ed/whatever. I’d had a good night’s sleep, had a vague list in my head - although I didn’t check it twice.
I got my haircut. I even bought some tinsel to go along with my first ever Christmas tree (thank you Nia!) and some icicle [...]