There are so many excellent christmas songs and albums - I learned on Friday that there is a World Cup of Christmas Folk on Live to Your Living Room’s Facebook page with 64 albums as contestants; now down to eight albums in the Quarter Finals.

But when I checked the contestants I found to my dismay that I have only 47 of the 64 albums, so there may be some purchasing in the future. On the other hand, my favourite Christmas album ever, "Bah! Humbug" with Robin Laing's glorious "The Man That Slits the Turkeys Throats at Christmas", isn't among them at all.