<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpid-20131221_115718.jpg"><img class=" alignright" title="20131221_115718.jpg" alt="image" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpid-20131221_115718.jpg" width="245" height="184" /></a>I don't think there are many upsides to Christmas what with the crowds in the shops, the impossible expectations of both pleasing other people and being pleased oneself, and the crowds or have I already mentioned that.
Here's a photo of an upside - a solitary mince pie decorated to perfection at our favourite Brigg watering hole, the Steel R. Ho Ho Ho.