All those queues for the sales – half a mile long, some of them, in the early hours of the Boxing Day/Bank Holiday mornings in near-zero temperatures. Sorry, but that’s not just about getting 40 per cent of the price of a Sylvanian Families Babblebrook Grange playset at Hamley’s – that’s about not being able to stand the babble of your own your family after just a couple days in their bosom.
