I was sitting in a little church in a Scots fishing village some years ago, watching Johnny Cash record a Christmas Special with the local schoolkids' choir (he took fifteen takes and make a mistake in every one.... they got it right every single time!)

I was sitting next to an American lady who said 'I love Christmas specials - we have so many in America, we have to start screening them in November to get them all in!'

As they say in Scotland about New Year: have a happy one when it arrives.

- Ian B