Well, one minute you're talking about the fact you can't believe its Glastonbury again, then you're back in Edinburgh covering the festival, then you turn your back for a week or so and everyone is talking about the Christmas number one. How come the years go by so quick these days?
Anyway, the bookies have released the odds for this year's Christmas top spot and, as always, it makes depressing reading, with Westlife the favourite with their Diana Ross duet 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'. That said, while William Hill reckon there will be Irish mediocrity at the top of our festive singles chart, HMV say they are putting their money on The Choirboys, that previously reported choir-boyband, the manufactured choral threesome co-managed by Aled Jones and signed to Universal. At least that would have some novelty value I suppose.
Other favourites this year include the actually-worse-than-Westlife G4, who have covered Johnny Mathis' 'When a Child is Born', and Crazy Frog's version of Jingle Bells which, weirdly, is sounding like the most preferable contender.