The run-up to Christmas has been as painful as Glenn McGrath’s after he trod on that crickey ball last summer (why couldn’t he oblige a few weeks ago?) hence the absence of posts. Having traipsed round the Trafford Centre two days running, twice my annual allowance, and I hadn’t much will left for anything else. But as we sat down to our festive Indian takeaway tonight, the telly ads away in the corner, we did discuss why, three days early, all the ads were about Boxing Day furniture sales. Time [...]
























