As we enter this New Year may we walk clear of this minefield of the Covid virus and begin to look forward with confidence to a different but safer world.

Thank you to all of the readers who donated to my Just Giving page on behalf of Hospice UK which, like many charities, lost millions in sponsored events.

The total at the moment raised by my ‘A Christmas Carol’ marathon stands at £2,442.

Fantastic!

As Tiny Tim observed, ‘God Bless Us Everyone’.

Brian Oxberry, Hempland Lane, York