Christmas 2019 is less than a month away, and it’s easy to get swept up in the pressure to have the perfect Christmas day. But we need to remember that Christmas is far more memorable and magical when it doesn’t go to plan...
Yet, I am scrutinising the tree as I write. It does look a bit crap. Why is the bottom right hand side completely bare? Why is it lurching like Del Boy on the brink of crashing through a bar? Is one of those candy canes… rotting? The tree looks like me at the end of a Christmas party. Gaudy, scruffy, covered in glitter and approaching total collapse.
My father adores the secular side of the season as much as the spiritual part, and has been creating extra traditions since I was born.are told around the tree, quizzes with elaborate scoring systems are hosted, and enough gifts are given to embarrass the Ecclestones. I’m incredibly lucky. My Christmases have been happy ones.
while cooking every single recipe from Nigella’s Christmas book while remaining able to zip myself into the sparkliest of dresses. For every hour in which I spend pursuing festive perfection, I must spend 10 on my sofa, under a blanket, watching repeats of, doing nothing more taxing than pulling pine needles out of my slippers.
Why do we all keep taking part in this ludicrous competition? Why are we behaving as though Kirstie Allsop will be walking through our front doors to judge our lives at a moment’s notice? We forget that Christmas is far more memorable and magical when it doesn’t go to plan. When I think of the season at its most textbook shiny, joyful and triumphant, I amalgamate 10 years of Christmases into one memory, which might actually be a picture I saw on the John Lewis website. My special, stand-out Christmases are beloved disasters.
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