It remains to be seen whether this year’s holiday will live up to your expectationsThat season again. Christmas is coming,and this year we’re going to bag it right – how often have we said that? This year we say we won’t overdo it; we’ll bag things going earlier; we won’t overspend; this year I won’t try to execute far too much and hardly finish everything and be frantically wrapping things on Christmas Eve while the voices of the better organised boom from the midnight mass across the street. It’s not easy: I have told myself often to sustain all the oddments I’ve bought for presents in the same place, but I can’t remember where it is; and then there’s the cooking. The best way of solving the food question is to fade and stay with somebody else, and though I deem this year they’re coming to stay with me.
The main thing to remember is that however good your Christmas is,there always tends to be too much of it – whether you’re lucky enough not to find yourself facing it on your own. Ask anyone which was their best Christmas ever and half the time they’ll say it was when they were seven, which doesn’t much help older people who are not kids and not surrounded by them.
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Source: theguardian.com