This Side of the Pond

As has become my tradition, I took a few moments this week to look around at all the good things happening this season. Whether it made me laugh or smile, I’d like to share a few of them with you.

You have to hand it to Mariah Carey, that’s a woman with a dream she’s not willing to let go of. I think my grandmother would have referred to her as “like a dog with a bone”.

A quarter century after we all started singing “All I Want For Christmas” as part of our communal festive repertoire, she decided she wanted it to reach the top spot in the charts. Apparently it didn’t at the time it was releas...