I think I have managed to finish my Christmas shopping. Mostly on line with a quick visit to Barton yesterday to mop up the bits.

Jacob came with me. Manlike he does not care for shopping. (He thinks women do?!?!?) However, he is a good strong lad, good at lifting things from trolleys into the car. Moreover he had his own shopping to do, which -regretably - included a life size inflateable Santa and two strings of outdoor lights: at least these do not festoon the outside of the house, but respectively stand in the porch and decorate a large fir tree in the garden.

I may take a photograph some evening - or, there again, I may not.