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’Tis the season to (try to) be jolly

HERE WE go again. It seems as if Christmas never went away. It lasts for months. They were still flogging cut-price mince pies and Christmas puddings in my local supermarket in February and had already restocked by September. Don’t laugh, I took a photo of the shelves groaning with such dire fare then and we’d not even got out of our summer shorts or had Halloween or Guy Fawkes Night.

I made the

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