It’s that time of year again. The parties are being booked, the tinsel and baubles are starting to appear in supermarket aisles and it won’t be long before the dulcet tones of Shane McGowan, Slade and Wizzard are being played all over the airwaves. 

 

Yes, it’s that time of year again. With less than 50 shopping days to go until Christmas, you’re going to have to make a start soon, but what to buy? 

I’ve spent countless years trying to reconnect my grandad’s fragmented family and I have finally been able to put in the last piece of the jigsaw. 

 

In September I spent an amazing three weeks in Western Australia with cousins that, 9 years ago, I didn’t even know I had!