This year, the lights were still in store because of the refurbishment of our flat so Tigger bought a new set of blue ones – blue seems the trendy colour for lights this Christmas.

I like all the sounds of the quiet house too. I like to wake up in the night and hear the clock in the front room chiming the hour. From early morning we hear the tube trains running deep below the house. Do the people hurrying to work think of me lying in bed above them, I wonder?