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Found 7 resource(s) in 'Looking at You', for December 2024.
Looking at You (all articles) for December 2024
That coin in your Christmas pudding How much will you spend on Christmas this year? What does your TV licence cover? Think twice before buying that goat in Ghana What sort of a Christmas card person are you? Restrict number of dogs that can be walked ** Editor: David Pickup considers the coin in Christmas... (1285 words)That coin in your Christmas pudding
There is a tradition, which dates from the Middle Ages, of putting silver coins into Christmas puddings. The first coins used were a silver farthing or penny. After World War One, it became a threepenny bit and then a sixpence. Finding one was supposed to bring you good fortune, but probably it was more likely... (158 words)How much will you spend on Christmas this year?
You will probably spend about £600 during this festive period – what with Christmas gifts, food, decorations, socialising and travel. Over half your budget will go on gifts for others, followed by food and drink (18%), travel (6%), gifts for yourself (4%) and decorations (2%). About a third of us will still be shopping during... (118 words)What does your TV licence cover?
Imagine something unlikely! There is one television programme the whole family enjoy, but everyone watches it differently. So – you are resting upstairs and watching it on the portable set in the bedroom. Your partner is still at work and watching it on a laptop in the office. Your son is at university and watching... (344 words)Think twice before buying that goat in Ghana
What are you buying your friends for Christmas this year? If you are tempted by ‘socially responsible’ gifts that involve you NOT giving your friends anything at all, but instead giving your money to a charity ‘in their name’, you may wish to think again. Such gifts as goats in Ghana or chickens in Chad... (197 words)What sort of a Christmas card person are you?
The time to send and receive Christmas cards has come round again – time for our annual shock at the cost of a coloured card, and disbelief at what the Post Office intends to charge us to deliver them. It seems there are three kinds of people when it comes to Christmas cards: the total... (164 words)Restrict number of dogs that can be walked
A lot of us will be out taking walks over the festive period. But do you get nervous when you see someone walking towards you while trying to control a number of various kinds of dogs on the lead? Last year a woman was mauled to death while out walking eight dogs at one time.... (128 words)
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