CHRISTMAS: a time to celebrate and also a time of immense pressure to have everything ‘just so’. This idea of Christmas perfection came into sharp focus when I read Meg Bignell’s column for ‘A Day in the Country’ (fellow Tasmanian author and Country Style columnist Maggie MacKellar is taking a very well-earned break).
Meg writes about how the things that go wrong become the enduring memories. These are the stories that are told over and over, becoming the stuff of family legend. Like the time when I lit the Christmas pudding, as I always do, but in the process I also set the table on fire. There was shouting and chaos
