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Simon Heffer looks for Christmas presents online; and takes a stroll round Piccadilly
There are several reasons why Christmas should be held every two, or possibly even five, years, but none is quite so pressing as the hell of shopping. It is at around this time of the season that the thoughts of some of us turn to little else. We know, or think we know, the horror of witnessing disappointment among our loved ones when they open their gifts on 25 December. We wish there, instead, to be appointment. So the question then arises of how the average man, burdened by his inevitable loathing of shops (with the exception of proper shops such as those selling secondhand books, shotguns and wine) handles this most treacherous of courses.
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