Hope You're Happy For Christmas, Allington

We've been trying to do the Christmas preparations incrementally this year and this has really reduced the stress. So one day was some present shopping, another was buying the turkey, another was making the mince pies and so on. This has been accompanied with regular festive glasses of wine or beer as and when required - rather blissful compared to some rather more frantic years. All I want to do now is stop work - I've got to commute all the way into London and back for half a day tomorrow, where I'll probably sit in my studio staring at the walls because everyone else, particularly in the expert departments, has already left for the holidays!