What’s your favourite part of Christmas? Ask a dozen people and you’ll get a dozen answers. Some might say, wryly, the war on it; others may enjoy the company of family or pressing play on a favourite Yuletide movie. Eating a turkey or, I don’t know, a Christmas goose, is also a good answer. It’s a special time.
For me, I enjoy Christmas for the traditions, and for all that time suddenly unmoored from the day-to-day responsibilities we often have to confront during the rest of the year.
The best of these Christmas traditions are the ones that, to anyone else, would seem totally inexplicable.