Just under a year until Christmas, folks. So this would be a good time to start thinking of really good gift ideas for next year which you can then forget and beat yourself up about when you find yourself flicking furiously through the Argos catalogue on Christmas eve.

For the old-skool music enthusiast in your life who insists on clinging grimly to the analogue days, this USB Mixtape may prove an endearing waste of cash. Basically just a USB stick with not much memory, it comes in packaging that harks back to those fiddly days when creating a collection of songs required more than clicking and dragging. Aww. I can almost hear Bruno Brookes' voice being cut off the end of Top 40 tracks as I type.