@DanHardaker : on Ebeneezing the Xmas shopping
You ask if the gift hunt ended up at The Pound Shop [where "everything is a pound!" ] in jest, but with me:
a Paddington Bear book for Mother, the Jonathan Ross biography for the sibling, and Shilpa Shetty's S2 perfume for the +1 = total spend of four quid; which left enough for a new ball for the dog, a Pepsi for me, and a few pennies to charity.
Christmas for a fiver - result!