Katie Who Can Read

Hello all! We're well and truly into the run-up to Christmas now; who's ready? I've bought all but maybe two of my presents, but...

Wasn't it just last week that I was bemoaning the lack of hoverboards in "the future" of 2015? And now the future is in the pa...

A belated Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have had a restful few days, with good food, company and presents. Last week, for the fir...

Morning all! For the last few years, since I've been working in retail, I haven't exactly been feeling Christmassy until it's to...

Victoria McQueen has a talent for finding things. As a little girl, she cycled across the Shorter Way Bridge near her home, to come out m...

Saturday Phew, it's almost over. I was most unimpressed when I realised that the last Saturday before Christmas was going to be fil...

What a week! Of course, with a week to go before Christmas, the shops are getting busier and during peak hours all I've been able to...

Saturday In the penultimate Saturday before Christmas, of course work was ridiculously busy. The good thing about weekends is that we d...

One of the problems of working in retail is that you spend so long knowing that it's "nearly Christmas" in shop terms from Sep...

A glowing lamppost in the middle of a snowy wood. A faun, wrapped in a scarf, carrying parcels and an umbrella. This is one of the images ...

It's the beginning of December, and for the first time I can remember at this time of year, there is a thick layer of snow on the groun...