It’s become much more exciting now that I have children.
It also requires more planning.
It also requires more planning.
There are lists to be compiled from the seemingly random
requests and suggestions from my 6 year old boy and four year old girl. Then
there’s the question of what do we think our two year old girl would like that
is not currently amongst the hand-me-downs from her older siblings.
Once we have our three lists we thin them out. The plastic
tat and passing fads carefully removed, in what is nothing less than parental
censorship, we are left with a collection of presents that will not drive us
mad in the coming year. The items are then distributed by cost, availability
and suitability to the various parties who will be spending actual money on
these things.
Over the past six years the ‘problem’ of making it as easy
as possible for my elderly parents to obtain said items has been solved by
limiting the shopping to one store. So, armed with a printed and illustrated
list they head off to Knight and Lee in Southsea.
Knight and Lee are owned by John Lewis and have been there
as long as I can remember.
Each year they have approached a member of staff with a
sheaf of A4. It has been taken from them and chairs found for them to sit, whilst
various members of staff have set off through the toy department to find the
required items of joy.
Once found (or ordered, with a promise of a phone call once
in stock) and paid for, staff have carried the goods to the ground floor and
helped obtain and load a taxi.
Each year it has been someone different doing this, so I
have no names or photos. But each year the service has been consistently
wonderful.
So, thank you staff at Knight and Lee for helping make
Christmas shopping a lot easier for my parents and the whole process less of a
worry for me.
I look forward to a similar tale from my Mum this year.
Have a fabulous festive season.
Editor's note - so a thumbs up to Knight & Lee
from us too.
Editor's note - so a thumbs up to Knight & Lee
from us too. 
@Hoodedman_art
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