Q. What are your reflections from a year like no other?
Christmas was fine, uneventful and calm, which is what I wanted really (our historical Christmases' were often not secure or nice) so I was just happy with no drama. I did leave Christmas until last minute unlike others who appeared to extend theirs from November. I am usually really organised with Christmas as I usually try to buy presents over the year to avoid financial disaster. This year I was just so busy catching up with work after lockdown and anxious about spending any money that I think I did it all in the last week or so. An unexpected benefit of this was that we got a cheap tree and a cheap turkey! We just called this "our last minute Christmas".
Extract
