I'm getting sick of people asking the question "are you ready for Christmas?". No tree is up, the house is cold and damp, we have laundry piling up and not enough time to take loads up to the launderette for drying (no space for a dryer). We had a family emergency at the weekend which is still somewhat on going on top of a month long emotionally-based school avoidance episode for my child with additional needs which has massively compounded the quite how sharp the thing end of the wedge is for us, and because I am the only who isn't elderly or working full time in the family because of my own Disability I have been left with having to co-ordinate the mess. People with more money can just throw money at these things and have it all fixed.