A few New Year resolutions by media could improve all our lives

IF you’re going to drop a crib figure onto a tiled floor the day before Christmas, you don’t choose the Baby Jesus. Trust me on this.

You can get through the festivities without a lamb. The shepherd may look like he's not getting much job satisfaction without anything to herd, but your crib will still look OK.

You can even manage without a king. But without the baby, all you have is a set of little figures gazing fixedly at a gap in the middle. Getting replacements to scale late on Christmas Eve is not practical. So you end up on hands and knees searching for the bits to stick together again, you get covered in blood because kneeling on broken crib figures will cut the knees off you, and you end up with your mouth glued shut because you never take the warnings on superglue seriously.