What a let down they were, you can usually rely on the Christmas soaps to provide some decent viewing…but what did we get this year?

Victoria falls through some ice. Maria throws some paint on Tonys car. Susie leaves the square.

Big whoop.

I suppose the ‘Sean is not the daddy’ storyline was OK but how predictable, Sean wakes up and announces he’s so happy and it’s going to be the best Christmas ever and you know it’s all about to go Pete Tong.

Stupidest moments? Sean randomly asking Jack if he is the daddy, because he just happened to be there at that point…and what do you know, Jack is the daddy and Sean works this out from his reaction. Duurrrr.

Also the fact that five people were quite happy to be running around and jumping on the frozen lake in Emmerdale, but then suddenly when Victoria threw the necklace on it everyone was freaking out and calling her an idiot and crawling along the ice to try and get it back!

Over all the Christmas soaps this year only score a 5/10!

I was looking at tv stands the other day because I just got a new TV, I say new…it’s actually a really old hand me down from my parents, but it’s new to me. I have gone from a 15 inch one to a 32 inch one and I definitely need somewhere to put it as it’s currently teetering on something that is really far too small to hold it.

They are rather expensive though, so I am going to keep my eye on the sales and hope I can pick one up real cheap

My fiance has to get his car MOT done in January, as well as getting it taxed and insured for the year — ugh — expensive

He warned me earlier in the month I wouldn’t be getting too much for Christmas this year because he needed to save his pennies, that’s OK with me as I am not greedy — but I still searched to try and find him some cheap auto insurance because I know he struggles financially at the beginning of the year.