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Scrooge Owning a dog is good for your heart Shake hands Generous Popular toys for Christmas? Those newsletters inside their Christmas card…</strong Who might be disappointed by your Christmas gift?  Will you say ‘thanks’ for your Christmas presents? **   Editor:   David Pickup, a solicitor, considers closing the office for Christmas…  Scrooge  It is Christmas...

It is Christmas Eve and you are looking forward to having a well-earned break. It is a good opportunity to catch up on reading your parish magazine, and to go to church. Your boss, Ebenezer, told you a week ago that the office would be closed over Christmas as there was no-one for him to...

Thinking of getting your family a dog this Christmas?  On the plus side, here is an interesting statistic: dog owners have a 24 per cent reduced risk of all-cause mortality and are 65 per cent less likely to die after a heart attack. Such were the recent findings of researchers at the American Heart Association. ...

If you are attending various Christmas social events this month, consider this: when you shake hands with someone, how long should you hold on for?   It seems that the ideal time is no more than three seconds. Recent research at the University of Dundee found that shaking someone’s hand in a ‘prolonged manner’ (longer than...

Christmas is a time for giving, and we do it well.  The British have been ranked among the most generous nations in the world, after a recent study found that six out of ten of us have helped a stranger in the past month. The research, which surveyed 1.3 million people in 128 countries over...

According to the toy shop Hamleys, board games are going to be popular this Christmas – but not as you knew them.  Instead, the ‘smart’ version of Pictionary has been called one of the ‘must-have’ toys this Christmas.  It is just one of many classic board games which have been given a digital makeover, including...

Brace yourself – this is the month when many of your distant friends and relatives will be sending you their Christmas card with the Christmas Newsletter tucked inside. You will read all about Grannie’s arthritis and treatment, how Rupert’s progress on the violin is amazing, how their summer holiday cruise of the Med was stupendous,...

If anyone is not going to like your present, it will probably be a millennial (aged 25 – 34 years).  Last year some 37 per cent of millennials unwrapped presents which they found deeply disappointing, according to recent research by Which? You will do better with someone from ‘Generation X’ (aged 18 to 24 years). ...

After Christmas, what?  Just blank silence? Or a ‘thank-you’ note for that gift? A survey by the insurers Ecclesiastical has found that 60 per cent of 25-to-34-year-olds said they would NOT write a thank-you note because they found writing uncomfortable, or were embarrassed by their handwriting, spelling or grammar, or just did not know what...

Family Debt Beware of taking your dog near water More than 32,000 of us struggle to change a light bulb Put your garden nets away Nits don’t mind mayonnaise The odd nap is good for your heart Accentuate the positive Our hospitals are full of lonely people Exercise can save your life Women dislike a...

‘Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.’  Romans 13:8 Supposing you find out that your partner has a serious amount of debt. What do you do? You might have discovered it by seeing a letter or answering the phone or the...

First, the sea: palm oil is washing up on beaches across Norfolk, Cornwall and Wales, appearing as white clumps. Councils are warning that such ‘bergs’ can be fatal to dogs. It seems that ships are permitted to dump palm oil into the sea if they are at least 12 miles offshore.  But the toxic lumps...