In his weekly column, Fakenham correspondent Jim Harding reminisces on Christmas as a child and discusses a book, brought to his attention by a helpful librarian, which took him back to the time he spent in Panama. When all is said and done, I have to admit that one of my favourite months of the year is this one, December. The obvious reasons are to do with what you might expect, especially when a youngster, Christmas, of course. But in our family, my birthday was a few days before Santa-time and my older brother’s a few days after. I’ve no idea how she did it but Mum, not only made cakes for …