Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (7th December)

Mrs Mackerel's TFI Friday (7th December).

It’s Top Ten time at Mackerel Headquarters, with all the usual suspects listening, compiling and scribing. It’s been a tickety boo year for new music: long dog walks or runs in empty frozen fields with Mr M Dog are just the medicine for listening, dancing and singing along. But it’s just so damn hard to choose, and as Blackadder once said:

“We are in the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.”

For some reason MM and I laughed rather a lot at this; the passage of time seems to have made it funnier.

A week of get up, go to school, go to work, walk the dog, cook some food, go to sleep. Read some books, knitted some Christmas trees, baked some Christmas treats. Really. I told all this to my brother today who rolled his eyes and asked me was I trying to be Kirstie Allsopp and Mary Berry rolled into one. I was mildly offended. We met in London for our annual Christmas shopping non-extravaganza, yet spent far more time in cafés chatting and drinking coffee. The best things in life really don’t cost much, particularly if you’re good at shoplifting.