Christmas - let's just all calm down a bit.
Now I know this is my fault. I don't have to read magazines and perhaps I shouldn't, especially not in the run up to Christmas. I don't have to read weekend papers and watch television but, heck, I like all those things. I am a real newspaper addict, love my particular magazines dearly (Country Living, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Gardens Illustrated and The English Garden since you asked, with occasional diversions into Red) and while I don't watch a lot of television, what I do like are things that make me laugh like "The Thick of It" and cookery or gardening programmes, particularly ones like River Cottage which talk about growing and cooking the kind of food I like. So I don't really want to turn into Mrs Grumpy and give up my usual pleasures during the run up to Christmas but I am plodding through my usual reading feeling that the country is running mad. Do people really give each other £900 headsets from Swavorski or is it a jo...