Is It The Holidays Yet? Is it? Is it?

I don’t know about you, dear readers, but I am more than ready for a break — although that feeling of being rushed off one’s feet, thus needing to put them up with a wee cuppa, is partly due to it being the “end of year”, with the Christmas and New Year holidays immediately ahead.

Christmas in Aotearoa

Plus, you know, all that shopping: for special food and drink, and gifts for family and others you may be spending Christmas with. Not to mention the frantic cleaning and tidying ahead of guests a...