Dear Reader

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … especially if you are well planned and have organised a fantastic social life.

Use our Christmas Party Nights feature to help you organise a night out with your work colleagues, your group, your friends or for a pre-Christmas or Christmas Day with loved ones. There is something really special waiting for you with all our advertisers.

And who knows? For all you single guys and girls, it may be the time of the year where you meet a special someone in your life.

Who can resist a slow dance to Wham’s Last Christmas or a wellplayed live band encouraging you onto the dance floor for a Gay Gordon with a potential new love?

A recent survey undertaken by match.com said that people are more likely to meet someone on a night out with other friends.

Whether that is true on the west coast or not (because we seem to know everyone already), Christmas is certainly a great time to get out and about to meet up with old friends. There are so many wonderful places to go on the west coast to celebrate.

For those readers who are already loved up – it is the time of the year to make sure your partner is feeling the Christmas spirit and maybe even drinking a wee tipple or two in one of our fabulous advertisers’ venues.

And if you’ve decided to make Christmas Day extra special, then you might like to consider making arrangements to take family and friends out for lunch or dinner.

For many, Christmas Day can be the one day when you really can kick back and relax. It does beg the question for those not-so culinary-minded men and women, why on earth they don’t give up the ghost of being a domestic god overnight and give into the delights of a meal prepared by an exceptional chef.

That way, you don’t even have any dishes to worry about. In some cases, because of all the extra cash we spend at Christmas, it may even be a better economy to take the family out for that really special meal.

Remember, the best Christmases we remember from our lives are not those where we are high as kites trying to prepare a meal for squillions of people but the best times are when we get to spend time loving, or arguing, with our loved ones.

So whatever you do this Christmas, make sure you enjoy yourself and have lots of fun.