Is it just me or has the amount of admin required at Christmas getting more each year? My phone is currently going off every couple of minutes. Collections for teachers, links to buy presents, links that don’t work anymore because you’ve missed the deadline. My other half asked me if I needed anything this morning, and I told him to just do ONE thing that was on the WhatsApp list of things to be done. He failed. It wasn’t his fault. It was just that the thing that needed to be done should been done already. He called to tell me that he couldn’t do it, that the link wasn’t working, and I felt a bit like Anna Wintour must feel when one of her staff tells her that Pamela Anderson has refused to do the December cover, and they’ve got Fearne Britton instead.
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