I did a couple of searches over Christmas, bored with no intention of punting but curious as to who was about. Slim pickings in my area and it looked like Sergei and band of profiles had taken a well earned break.
Last night it was back to usual, loads of new profiles, 10 offering all services for 75 quid an hour, some new and some familiar pictures. Interesting that these account for a good 50% of the profiles coming up on my searches and no obvious profiles of short term prossies who are broke after Christmas, sadly.
My completely biased and unscientific opinion is that the week between Christmas and New Year is a good time to punt, because there are still some WGs around, and most punters are "locked up" with their families.
Early January - forget it - many WGs are still on hols, and there are punters who've been locked up with their families over Christmas and New Year, are back at work \ free again, and have been scheming and planning and gasping for a punt all that time they've been on the leash.
As January wears on, WGs come back on stream, punters have had their New Year punts that they've been deprived of over Christmas, and credit card bills and bank statements start landing on punters doormats.