Article: Getting gift-rapt

If last minute Christmas shopping is giving you anervous breakdown, JANE BOWRON can help with some of the most original yuletide ideas around

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SOME people actually get a kick out of it. That's the awful business of parting with hard-earned cash to buy Christmas presents for loved ones. Most of us loathe trudging round the shops. Then when the task is completed, the fretting starts. Have you bought Auntie Vi the right thing? Is it enough? What if she gives you something really expensive like the year she presented you with a whole set of monogrammed Buxton suitcases when all you gave her was a flannel and soap flogged from a motel. The whole Christmas shopping deal is ...

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