Feeling Guilty? Join the Gift-Giving Frenzy

Evening Standard - London › December 15, 2006

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COULD barely stagger back to the car park with my great armfuls of gifts. In my left fist was a sack of presents destined for the reception-class teachers - coffrets a word that has only recently entered my lexicon) of scrubs and salts and soothing bubbles for each of them.

In my right hand, a large carrier bag contained the nursery staff 's gifts - more coffrets - together with something for the school secretary (scented candles; so sue me), plus a breakfast crockery set for our cleaner, a lovely Lithuanian woman with little English and (one hopes) not much china.

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Feeling Guilty? Join the Gift-Giving Frenzy

Tucked under one arm, I had a book of poetry for my acupuncturist and a bottle of whisky for the milkm...

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