Christmas in General Reviews

Ever wondered how Santa Claus is coping with the greatest number of Christmas wishes this year as there has ever been? Well guess what? Santa has his own web site. I came across it around 2 months ago while messing around on the Internet looking for something different. If you get on www.santa.co.uk you can get into all ...  Read the complete review

How many shopping days to go? I can't remember, but it's not that long now, and as usual I can't wait. I think I'm more excited than my two children! They're 4.5 and 2.5, so it's a lovely age as they're aware of Father Christmas and know they have to be good! Last year we left a glass of sherry out for Father ...  Read the complete review

It's November the shops have been in full flow for a couple of months, the adverts on telly telling us about the latest must have toys, the sales are starting. I've had enough of christmas already, and theres still 6 weeks to go. I used to love christmas but now it's all about how soon the shops can start selling ...  Read the complete review

Christmas arrives earlier every year according to the shops, the goodies appear in September in some establishments. Is this overkill? taking all the excitement away or a godsend for the forward planners! having four children Christmas can be more than a drain on the pursestrings so how is the best way to cope? I start my shopping the ...  Read the complete review

Like so many people I love Christmas. From the carols being sung on TV programmes (not that you hear that many nowadays!) to the mince pies, pressies and even Father Christmas - what do you mean, he doesn't exist! But as the years go by, it's true that Christmas is becoming more and more commercialised. At the start of October the shops ...  Read the complete review

Christmas -a celebration of Christ's birth or just another pagan festival? For many years christmas has been an exciting time for families,with decorated homes,beautiful lights and traditional christmas trees aglow with lights baubles and beautifully wrapped presents for all. A time when father Christmas wends his way down chimneys delivering ...  Read the complete review

Lonely that is for the hundreds and thousands of elderly folks without families; young homeless people and many many others for whom the dream of a 'traditional' yuletide is as much a pipedream as a holiday on Mars. Calls to the Samaritans soar a staggering 100 per cent over the holiday period, and Relate report that crisis calls ...  Read the complete review

Just as quickly as the supermarkets start selling the tinsel (usually some time in mid-July), and the town centres put up the Christmas lights (usually a week after the tinsel), and start trying to find some stray member of Bucks Fizz to switch them on in a ceremony invariably occuring in a rainstorm, people start to reminisce about what Christmas ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time Christmas was something we could all look forward to..A special holiday at the end of the year, when the days are short and the nights long.. Now it has become nothing more than an excuse for retailers to goad us into spending more and more, on what is often pure TAT.. Worse still they start pushing the damned stuff at us ...  Read the complete review

As we get older and our children become parents themselves, we look back at previous Christmas' and the utter the well worn phrase (heard by all at some point), "It wasn't like that in my day!" Well it wasn't, most of us didn't have the cash that todays consumer society requires. Christmas was just about shopping and ...  Read the complete review

Christmas, the best part of the year! Who doesn't love christmas? What seems to amaze me the most is the way in which your feelings towards it change as you grow older. When you are young you can't wait until it's the time of year where you get bombarded with so many presents you don't know what to touch first. You live ...  Read the complete review