I was feeling decidedly Grinch-like about all things festive, that was ’til I spent Tuesday evening in the company of the beau and 3 deliciously lovely ladies who call themselves The Puppini Sisters! Our liaison o’ loveliness was at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth, and yes, there were a few hundred other people there too, but I’ve chosen to wipe them from my vision of our retro Christmas soiree.

For those who don’t know, The Puppini Sisters are Marcella, Kate and Stephanie who are a whole lot o’ 1940s close-harmony awesomeness, they play a delectable array of instruments, including accordion, violin, glockenspiel and a kazoo and most importantly, they look real pretty in glittery dresses.

These girls do Christmas fabulously. Fact.

Their vocals are impressively tight as they bob and weave along to the fast-paced jazz backing. The crowd seemed somewhat lack-luster when Marcella asked who was feeling romantic, but they won her back round with their sing-a-long vocals during Let It Snow. My particular favourites of the evening included a not-very-Christmassy-at-all rendition of Beyonce’s Crazy in Love, heavily laden with some delightful jazz scatting, a much-better-than-the-original Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas and the Hawaiian Christmas song Mele Kalikimaka which made me want to don a Santa-red bikini and drink a pina colada.

If you didn’t manage to get a long to their Christmas gig, shame, but I wholeheartedly recommend you get your hands on a copy o’ Christmas With The Puppini Sisters as it’ll be just the thing to rouse you from your post-meal food coma.

Then, on boxing day I suggest that like me, you buy their new album Hollywood and flounce around like a silver-screen starlet in fluffy marabou heels. Like me.