CHRISTMAS has always been a season that inspires gratitude, a time to cherish what truly matters. For me, the festive period often brings back warm memories of growing up in Cupar street, when life was simpler and people focused on what I would describe as the small joys. Money was scarce, it was a time when, as the saying goes, it was “too tight to mention.” Yet despite this, or perhaps because of it, Christmas was still magical.