You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

We spent about a month in the studio living and working in a farmhouse outside of Raleigh. In the process, we learned a lot about recording and about the dynamics of our band in the studio.

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

To retailers who have invested so much time and money into their shops, this brings something more.

Everything depends on this week and whether people will come to the shops in droves to spend the money they have been given as presents.