Colman Noctor: Make your own family memories during Christmas 2021

What makes festive stories memorable is their uniqueness, not their perfection

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I am going to take some artistic licence and suggest an edit to a well-known Christmas song, changing some words to ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like last year'.

It is a rather gloomy prospect to find ourselves in this déja vu scenario where we are planning the festive period around a series of Covid restrictions. Christmas work parties are being cancelled, the hospitality sector is returning to tables of less than six people, having the extended family and friends over for Christmas dinner is looking like a non-runner. Understandably, the stress of all of this is taking its toll on many of us.