This will be a much quieter month after last month's extreme water sports endurance trials.

A cartoon from your youth is about to come back in a Christmas Carol, Dickensian type dreamy-way, perhaps a Christmases past, future, present, type thing. Never fear, it's only a dream: to stop the torment all you have to do is to press firmly on the nose of the narrator and then refuse to stop pressing until he gives in.

This month gifts involving water are wetly starred.