CHRISTMAS has come and gone. Or has it? Around here, outgoing Christmas cards sit in the box in which they arrived, let’s call them Happy New Year cards. Thank you notes are simply thank you thoughts at the moment, my son Miles, 7, started on his first, “Dad, how do I spell sweder?”

Off to see one last set of relatives for Christmas III. Then it’s on to 2016 - New Year’s resolutions, returns and notes will usher in the New Year.