A new Christmas

Christmas 2020 was, well… different. From working out how/when/if we could all be together and sending secret Santa gifts around the country to last-minute travel changes and an urgent need to ‘buy your own’ turkey, we certainly had to adapt. But as we made the best of it, will some of those novel experiences become the new festive norm?

Of course, the great unknown is what this Christmas might look like. ‘We are all at the mercy of COVID-19 and need to see how that unfolds over the autumn and into winter and if there will be any consequences of that,’ says Joanna Feeley, founder and CEO of leading trend forecasting agency TrendBible (). ‘But the lack of close