When I was younger, so much younger than today, I worked through November marking final year exams. It required me to work four till nine each night and nine to five on Saturday.

The evenings were often hard work because after a long day’s work you were never really motivated to mark examination papers. But the goal was worth it.

In those days my kids were little and the work I did ensured we could have a good Christmas. So it was with relief that the marking ended and the wait for the Christmas cheque to arrive.

The cheque always arrived close to Christmas Eve or on Christmas Eve. It meant a rush trip to the bank, to present the cheque and argue that I needed the money there and then as it was my kids Christmas present as we’d always have many lay-bys awaiting the money to retrieve them in time.

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