The toys we didn’t get

It was a week before Christmas, grey and cold, but finally the Christmas shopping was finished. Home at last, and after standing in a supermarket queue for almost an hour with a trolley bulging with f

Like all children, our columnist worked herself into a frenzy in the run-up to Christmas day!

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch

V icky scanned her kitchen calendar. The number of shopping days left until Christmas was diminishing at speed. How was she going to fit it all in, she wondered, especially with work being so hectic?

G av drove home, glancing up at the ...

Carolyn looked down the aisle where the birthday candles should have been. She shopped here every week. She knew exactly which shelf they ought to be on. She’d even mentally chosen which candles she’d