Its all comparative - Christmas is a lot better than ......fri night 5.30 on the M1. Or Thurs night...come to that. And road works and repeats of The Bill, or taking someone round the January sales in a wheelchair, or getting your credit card bill,...or the January sales with shops full of total dogshit.

Christmas does have its bad points...the Cliff Richard single, the check outs at the supermarket the night before,....but on balance I think as an experience its not bad rather than completely dire.