\u201cHave you finished yet?\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the third time that she had shouted up since I had retreated to the back bedroom with three rolls of positively festive paper, sellotape and all of my resolve. Let\u2019s be clear I HATE wrapping Christmas presents. If I had the money to shop in the kinds of places that would do it for me, then that would be a perfect solution. It\u2019s not that I disapprove of wrapping gifts, I think it\u2019s a lovely practice in fact and get very upset if I am presented with an un-wrapped gift, but put simply I am utterly useless at doing it.<\/p>\n
I suppose it all started as a child. My father, in particular, was very good at wrapping presents, and I was never as good as him at doing it, so soon I was getting other people to do it for me in return for extra washing up, money, whatever it took to not have to compete in the gift-wrap wars that go on between afficianados of the pursuit.<\/p>\n
So anyway, I had been upstairs for a little over an hour and I had still failed to wrap any of the five gifts that I had to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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