Sir, – I have just finished reading your “It’s Christmas” magazine, November 23rd) billed on your Front page as the ultimate guide to Christmas shopping. I have five grandchildren, so I qualify as a grandmother/granny. According to the guidance of Alannah Gallagher the ideal Christmas gift for a granny would be one or all of the following: a teapot, a china cup and saucer, a door stopper and/or a coffret (the mind boggles) of toiletries. The coffret is advocated, as, according to Ms Gallagher, “women of a certain vintage love a coffret”.
Sisters, it looks as if the struggle begins again. – Yours, etc,