Surviving the festive season

For freelances the festival season can be a time of feast - providing cover for ski-bunnies who have swanned off to Klosters - or more often of famine - because said bunnies don't commission anything from mid-December to mid-January. The Freelance commends to you Humphrey Evans's guide to surviving these dark days, online at www.londonfreelance.org/fl/survive.html

Ignorance and Want - illustration to Dickens' A Christmas Carol, by John Leech. (1809-1870) Since the artist died more then 70 years ago, this is definitely out of copyright.