…Children in Need has so far raised five and a half million pounds,
and the money stops coming on 31st December.
This evening I looked at my Christmas decorations and planned
where they should go, but I am not putting them up until mid-December…

I even drew a diagram of my bedroom, marking out the precise location for each bit of tinsel.

Suffice to say these decorations, like so many other things both tangible and otherwise, would be put away for good by the time the decade was out.