Shape up, ship out!
Dec 10, 2020
4 minutes
Amanda Carter, 49, County Durham
Pressing my ear to the bedroom door, I could hear my husband Darren going crazy with the sticky tape and wrapping paper.
‘Everything OK in there?’ I said, stifling a giggle. t was Christmas Eve 2014 and, typical Darren, then 46, he’d left wrapping my gift until the last minute.
‘Finished,’ he grinned, emerging from the bedroom and running down to put the pressie under the tree.
I had to laugh. Darren wasn’t the most organised when it came to Christmas.
Not like me, who started shopping and wrapping gifts months in advance.
But that was why we
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