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There's a point in early November when the dark stops being atmospheric and starts being a slog. Here are five genuinely cheap things that have helped me through it, plus two that absolutely did not, because you deserve the full picture.
I love Christmas. I do not love paying £9 for a lukewarm hot chocolate while standing in a muddy field with 4,000 strangers. Here is my honest, slightly grumpy, entirely practical guide to festive markets — including permission to stay home.
November has become a self-improvement bootcamp before the actual bootcamp of January. I am opting out this year and calling it Slowvember instead — not as a productivity hack, but as a quiet refusal to reinvent myself in the dark.
I have watched this year's festive commercials so you do not have to. Here is my honest, slightly grumpy and entirely personal ranking — including the one that made me cry into a mince pie.