Short entry today; like most folk, we're girding our festive loins for the non-stop orgy of eating and drinking, card-writing, insult exchanging and unwanted present disposal that is Christmas. It's strange, too, the way things can go badly wrong at this time of the year. Part of all of us all wants to recreate the Christmases we had as children (unless you were weaned by Witnesses, of course) and many of us also feel obligations to invite relatives we haven't seen for a year and who probably feel as awkward but obliged to accept as we do in inviting them for the Great Christmas Day Meal.
But there is something about having everyone round the table, pulling crackers, reading awful jokes and slipping on silly paper hats that can make it all worthwhile. Families - with all their inherent issues - can be wonderful things, and the collective warmth that permeates the house at such a time isn't always down to British Gas - or Calor, depending on where you live. Enjoy life for the moment - it's too short not to.
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