Mammy has the last word at Christmas

Mammy and Christmas — they go together like a stressed-out horse and a stress-inducing carriage.

‘The Christmas’ promises peace, joy and goodwill even though it might still spit us out the other side, exhausted, cranky and swearing we’re not going to TOUCH another Quality Street.

There is a huge variety of Mammyological approaches to Christmas but here are some snippets of invaluable advice, or at least Christmas smalltalk, honed from decades of experience.