Whilst I love Christmas, every year the thought of shopping for it puts me in a mild state of panic, even more so now as I have a troublesome toddler in tow.  But with the launch of two new services this week I’m thinking it might not be so bad after all!

For starters, if I forget something crucial for the festive feast or get the urge to create something from Delia’s Happy Christmas, Ocado is deploying emergency vans to respond to distress calls from shoppers.

And I can even make the present shopping easier as John Lewis has introduced an electric shuttle bus service to pick up shoppers from their homes and then drop them back again – brilliant, no more lugging bags on buses and tubes.

All I need now is to get organised and start planning ….. less than a month to go now!