If you’re anything like us, when the consumer countdown to Christmas began in, ooh, 1066, you just put your fingers in your ears and went ‘la la la, October is not nearly Christmas time’. But now you’ve suddenly realised that Hallowe’en been and gone, that Thanksgiving has also, and that the big event is technically next week, and you’re quietly panicking about (a) the unwritten cards, (b) that unplanned festive feast, and (c) those unbought Christmas gifts. Well, we can’t write the cards for you, or order your bird, but, as we did last year in our great Christmas gift guide, we can (*cue jingle bells, rosy-faced choristers, roasted chestnuts…