THE END OF CHRISTMAS |
A Christmas turkey. ARCHIVE.
It’s turning out to be a different sort of Christmas this year. The big family seasonal lunch – with turkey, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and gravy, if you’re British like me – is on Christmas Day, December 25. However, this year my family had our Christmas lunch – complete with crackers and Gregg dressed up as the Grinch – on November 30.
Bypassing tradition and doing our own thing was more by accident than design. My wife and I spent 10 days in the UK in November, with our flight back to Barcelona set for Monday December 1. My sister invited us for a coffee at her house on the Sunday evening, after which she would drop us off at the airport hotel. A couple of family members got wind of the plan and invited themselves over for tea. A few more suggested doing Sunday lunch, which led my sister to go all in and do a full Christmas meal for everyone.
The fact that........