CHRISTMAS. A time for worrying, borrowing, shopping, singing, playing, hoping, receiving, laughing, loving, eating, drinking, snoozing. Oh, and giving.

Reassuringly, that is not an afterthought for our readers.

Your response to this year's Evening Press Christmas Appeal has been typically generous.

Again we are asking for gifts to give the mothers and children at the Women's Aid Refuge a merry Christmas. And this year we also want food donations for Salvation Army hampers. Please keep the donations coming: they really will make someone's Christmas.

Updated: 12:11 Monday, December 08, 2003