Despite a gruff and curmudgeonly exterior, Coming Up is today soaked in festive spirit.
One the day that WHITE HELL finally struck, a quick perusal of the day’s other news turned up no less than five surveys to usher in the latest bit of pre-Christmas madness.
TK Maxx have done a piece of outstanding research which gives Coming Up the excuse to utterly gorge itself over the coming weeks.
Apparently the average Brit (average mind some will load up on far more than this) will eat four Christmas dinners with all the trimmings during the break.
It’s no wonder then that two in five of us will approach the season with heavy hearts as we consider the extra pounds we’ll be piling on, according to Weight Watchers.
Could that be the reason there will be so much left over? The Nationwide Building Society reckons a fifth of us still have victuals tucked away in our cupboards that we bought this time last year.
Perhaps that’s why a similar number will have to buy food on tick. Those Christmas killjoys at the National Debtline have urged us to rein it in with that gem.
So maybe we should all take the advice of no less a festive figure than the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, who has told us to consider giving the gift of kindness this year.
Coming Up is certainly up for that, although we fear we may have to suffer our own version of WHITE HELL as a result.
There’s more on all this seasonal stuff in Monday’s Courier, as well as news of Alex Salmond’s proposed return (he was never actually away of course) and the launch of the third list of 100 people who have had the most Impactful year in Courier Country. It’s called Impact 100.
In sport, St Johnstone riffed nicely on Tommy Craig’s pain in Paisley and David Clarkson, inevitably after we bigged him up all week, didn’t break the Dundee scoring record.
So I urge you, brave WHITE HELL and buy Monday’s Courier.