With quaint shops and flowering peach trees dotted along the main street, Bridgetown in the South West is the sort of picturesque place where you could film a made-for-TV Christmas movie.

You know the type I’m talking about — where the big city girl returns to the rolling hills of her childhood home town.

After getting stranded by an inevitable transport issue, she falls for an old friend, and realises she wants to spend the rest of her days in the warm embrace of the local community.

Toodyay, on the other hand, seems like the real life Whoville — the imaginary Dr Suess town obsessed with Christmas.

Toodyay has its own seven-day-a-week Christmas decoration shop, where carols play all day, every day.

Perhaps because of this or, as my partner believes, in spite of this, the locals have

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