Your card? I chucked it in the bin...

I’VE received my first Christmas cards of the season. Yes, I know some see them as ludicrous, cluttering, ecologically unsound symbols of a time gone past, but I love them.

My only caveat is that they should be topped and tailed individually with some kind of acknowledgment that the card was intended for us specifically. Cards where (and I’m naming no names) the sender hasn’t bothered to address them personally or, in the case of those from businesses, even sign them, get dropped straight into the recycling – environmentally dodgy glitter allowing.