NORTHERN PLANNER

I know we’re supposed to be grumpy at Christmas starting as early as November, but I was in Leeds this week and just loved seeing the lights.

A bus drove through this one but I kind of like what it’s produced.

Mum and Dad live in Cornwall, so we usually spend Christmas with my in-laws who don’t, but this year we’re going south. Highlights will be getting wrapped up and walking on the beach, the traditional Hovells Christmas Eve Fondue, Mum’s cooking, not to mention seeing Mum and Dad at Christmas for the first time in three years. I miss them.