It seemed really laboured to me – you could see the jokes coming a mile off – the writing on the old series was so much better. Another one that would have best been left alone IMO

Nope – I plan on starting with bucks fizz when I’m scraped out of bed by my family. Then progressing through the day in a similar vein. Looking forward to the kids burying themselves in piles of wrapping paper and sitting around with my wife doing as little as possible bar eating, drinking and enjoying ourselves. Hopefully I’ll get to have a quick blast to clear the head on Boxing Day…

Best kit for me this year – hard to choose 1 thing so it’s a toss-up between the Ergon BD1 backpack, Exposure Maxx-D and my Garmin 705. I’d recommend all of them…

same old same old here I’m afraid.