A week today and Christmas will be all over and no doubt many of us will be gobbling up leftovers from the big day itself. But as there is so much anticipation on the run up to Christmas, and I'm not talking just for the arrival of Santa, but the

 1. Saturday morning will see rain clear the southeast corner of England allowing for a better day than Friday with sunny spells and largely dry conditions to the east but blustery showers in the west, some of these merging into longer spells of rain in the northwest. A brisk south to