Richard Hogan: How to navigate Christmas with grief, pressure and stress

"This time of year should come with a landmine warning. There is the financial burden, we are forced back into potentially fraught and complicated familial relationships, while also drinking and eating a little more than we normally would."

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Homes warm with multicoloured lights, wooden reindeer-protecting porches and those bloody neighbours casting some sort of garish Christmas pantomime on the façade of their house. 

We are one such neighbour. May the absurdity begin.