Expectations alloyed

I recognise that, in this time of austerity, many of you will have had to make hard choices about where to spend your money.

I have to confess to being a little disappointed, though, that a few fewer less of you than last year this day have obliged me with the traditional adoration on a card stuffed through my portal.

I await today's second post with an air of anticipation-cum-indignation.