The toys we didn’t get

It looked like a bleak Christmas for all – until Becky had a bright idea

NOELLE ignored the knock the first time she had heard it, believing it to be a branch from the buddleia bush, beside the door, brushing the window. It was a foul December night. The snow threatening a

Mu-um! Mum! He’s done it again!’ screams Molly, my seven-going-on-17-year-old daughter. As if it’s not hard enough getting the two of them ready for school and out of the house in the morning! Quickly

MAUD had been looking forward to finally getting her decorations out again. And now with a whole afternoon at her disposal she was really going to savour the experience and make it something special.

Sarah looked down at her shopping list again, frowning. Why on earth had she been so pig-headed? Her parents had offered to do Christmas. So had John’s. But no. She’d insisted: since this was their fi

LITTLE kids think a month is a very long time – especially when they’re waiting for something. When the something they’re waiting for happens to be Christmas, then that month feels longer than ever. T