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It may seem as though Christmas is still some time away – but in the world of shopping, those final few weeks can simply fly by. As soon as those Hallowe’en displays have been taken down, it’s time for shops across the land to move on to their Christmas promotions. For some, this is a source of annoyance – can’t Christmas just wait until December? Others might instead embrace this change, and decide to do their Christmas shopping a little...

Christmas; all trees, tinsel and Turkey, right? Well maybe south of the border where the Victorians managed to hijack the UK’s traditional take on Christmas, but in Scotland tradition means tradition.  Scottish Christmas traditions are certainly older than many practised south of the border. In fact, in Scotland, Christmas has been less of a focus than New Year and there’s some very historical reasons for the surprisingly large number of New Year related traditions. During the reformation the strongly Presbyterian...

Christmas has been with us for over two centuries, in one form or another. It may be tempting then, for some of us to imagine that we are as familiar with the occasion as we possibly can be. But Christmas is changing and nowhere is this change more evident than in the world of shopping. The ways we get our Christmas presents from the manufacturer to the foot of our Christmas Trees is being utterly transformed. Some of these changes...