Christmas. What’s it all about?
Ask ten people and you may very well just find you get ten answers (different ones I mean. Obviously you’ll get ten answers).
But is that at least partly because “militant secularists” are ripping the Christ from Christmas?
We meet the reverend who thinks so.
He reckons there is something of a campaign to reduce Christians “to the status of a knitting club”.
Presumably not a very successful or indeed big one.
It’s strong stuff, but jolly interesting.
Away from all that religious debate, there is plenty of other festive fayre to wet your winter whistle.
For starters we have the truly heart-warming story of the Tayside family looking forward to a great Christmas at home with the tiny baby born more than three months early. Lovely stuff.
We also reveal the Christmas habits of Courier readers, from favourite festive songs to the magical movies that make the season.
Meanwhile, Tuesday night saw the final of Masterchef.
A more tense event one could not hope to witness.
We spent the evening in St Andrews, where our hopes were well and truly pinned on local culinary magician Jamie Scott.
Did he cook up a storm or make a fry-tful mess (oof).
Either way, we have all the fall-out, including the obligatory taste test.
In other news, it’s a while since the controversial average speed cameras on the A9 went live.
We wanted to know how many tickets had been issued, so we thought we’d ask the scheme’s architects, Transport Scotland.
But it turned out they don’t know.
Hey-ho.
We reflect on that somewhat curious state of affairs.
Christmas is drawing ever closer, but if your life can cope with just a tad more excitement then be sure to snap up Wednesday’s Courier. It’s wonderful. Failing that, why not try our digital edition?