A very Northern Christmas

Off to sunny Doncaster and Manchester for some good old British Crimbo cheer. And the Boxing Day sales - remind me to tell you some time about the difficulty of shopping for clothes when you're 5'2" and living in a land of giants. I will, of course, let all my eager readers know about the manners of my Mancunian fellow shoppers when I return. Will they approach the surly yet highly skilled shoulder-barging ways of the cloggies? Find out next week!