I left Edinburgh’s hailstones behind this weekend and headed home to the west coast, where the sun has finally decided to grace us with her presence. As much as I’m enjoying this little reprieve from the wintery weather I’m so accustomed to, I can’t help but find myself wishing that Christmas was just a little bit closer when I consider my ever-growing mental list of ‘things I want but can’t have’. I think I could put up with yet another week of snow if it meant that a large, red suited, white bearded man was going to squeeze himself down my chimney with a copy of WRAP magazine – although if he got any soot on it, he wouldn’t live to tell the tale.

I’m taking a Magazine Publishing module this trimester at university, and every guest lecturer has brought in a wonderful selection of their favourite magazines for us to pass around. WRAP has unsurprisingly been on everyone’s lists, so I have had the intense pleasure of flicking through a copy of Issue 6 and it is without a doubt the most beautiful magazine I have ever come across.

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