The Australian Women's Weekly

Christmas spirit

My mother-in-law started panicking about the green beans around the 19th of September. Would we have enough? How were we going to manage everything? What time should she prepare them? Should she boil them at 9am then reheat? Would we have enough chairs? Where would we all sit?

It’s the same every year, the panic about Christmas Day.

What about just relaxing and “chucking a shrimp on the barbie”?

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