Remember the golden days of Christmas, where all you had to worry about was snaffling the last ‘purple one’ and getting to sleep before Santa crept into your bedroom? As an adult, Christmas can be a different experience with weeks of anxiety and prep, often culminating in some sort of ding-dong (not-so-merrily on high).
Christmas is a time of great expectations, says Lucy Blake, author of*. ‘We think spending it together with loved ones should be positive, meaningful and magical – but we often expect