‘Tis the season to be jolly. They’re right there.

So as you don that paper crown, chink that champers glass and dodge Mavis and her mistletoe, spare a thought for why the season is what it is. So many people dismiss the true meaning, saying it’s just a Pagan date and it’s all about family and being charitable to all around you. Two incredibly minor truths, which the Devil craftily uses to blind the high streets and the decorated dinner tables.

Many say He didn’t exist. Many say that they will celebrate His birth by getting legless and seeing out 2011 in a haze of Festive Fun. I think it’s great that we can all come together to celebrate such an amazing arrival. But I don’t plan to commemorate it with a hangover, however - I’m still too amazed by the truth of it all.

That truth invades more shops, homes and work places this month than at any other time of the year. And many don’t even realise or remember it.