I know some of you started Christmas shopping back in January or having been stashing things away in the present drawer all year, so you won’t be impressed.
But I am (at myself)
D came down from Birmingham yesterday and we met for coffee and lunch at a Rural Shopping Courtyard , with the inevitable bit of browsing and shopping. She admired a picture in the corner of one the shops and then some table lamps in another which she may well come back to buy, the lamps I mean.
So today I had this inspiration - the picture for her Christmas present! Or if we are doing Secret Santa I will fiddle that so I get her, or if we are setting a limit on adult presents, it can be a joint present for her and SIL.
Feeling totally smug now and probably won’t buy anything else until I panic round about the 12 th of December
Yet Another Scam In The Name of Santander
Good Morning Thursday 13th August 2026
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