1. Horoscopes 1st - 7th December

Matters preying on your mind would fare better out in the open. Don’t keep them bottled up inside. Someone’s anxious to get something off their chest; be honest with them and they will find it easier to be candid in return.

2. Learn how to carve that turkey this Christmas

“Turkey carving is a lost art,” says Antony Worrall Thompson. “Birds are so piddly and small these days and the Sunday roast is dwindling, so people rarely find the need to carve.

3. Pet Finder: Purrfect puss

Golden oldie Mavis is on the look out for a nice retirement home.

4. Pole lot of fun

When is exercise really fun? When it’s ‘sexercise’. Join City Woman on her quest to find fun and flirty fitness sessions to spice up your regime

5. Sussex Pond Recipe

This recipe is straight from Grandma Clerehugh’s book – but I’ve translated the pounds and ounces into boring metric measurements.

6. Pet Finder: Want a loving friend?

Lovely Joey and Judy are two six-year-olds looking for a quiet loving home together with a safe garden to play in.

7. Rosé taste test

Rosé is no longer a memory of the excessive 70s when glamrock ruled before punk invaded.

Sales of this very palatable wine continue to soar to the point where one in six bottles of wine bought in the summer is rosé.

8. Wine lovers' paradise uncorked

Hotel TerraVina – opened last August – is owned by one of the world’s best sommeliers and has a suitably outstanding wine cellar.

9. Andrew’s swansong has only just begun

New chefs at long established restaurants have a tough job. They have to deal with a new kitchen, unfamiliar staff and a public who demand the same high standards they have come to expect.

The Swan at Streatley was no exception.

10. House that calendar guys!

SO here we are again in January, which even for the cheeriest of us must class as the most miserable month of the year.