Are you a last minute shopper or have you got it all done by now?
I love Christmas and if I get too much done too early, I do not feel right. You will usually find me rushing out at 3pm on Christmas Eve to get the last minute present that I have forgotten and then rushing to the supermarket to get the vital ingredient for something or other that I missed getting when I had more time! But I love it and would not like to be doing it any other way.
How do you do it?
Do you plan and prepare and have the potatoes and vegetables prepared well in advance? Do you have your bread sauce frozen in the freezer in July? Do you have every present wrapped by the middle of August? I admire that and wish I could do it, but I can’t.
I need the buzz of the lights on the buildings and in the trees. I need to hear the Christmas carols on repeat in the shops. I need cold weather and I need the Christmas Spirit! I need the feeling of togetherness that Christmas brings. The shared experience and the shared thought that we are all up against it. It is the ultimate deadline. You can’t put it off, it has to be done.
My earliest memory of Christmas is going shopping with my Dad on Christmas Eve. It was way back in the 1960s and he knew many of the shopkeepers in our local town. We walked down the High Street and I remember him wishing “Merry Christmas” to everyone. It felt magical to me as a small child.
It is still magical for me, and I think it is because despite everything, however bad things are in the world and in our own country, Christmas time brings in a break. Even if you have to work, or you don’t have a huge family to visit, there is a special feeling around in the towns and villages. A feeling that things are fun and exciting despite everything. And a feeling of goodwill to each other. Wishing each other merry Christmas when normally we would not speak.
Despite all the commercialism and early start to Christmas in all the shops and the overspending and overeating, there is something true about Christmas that feels great.
It is a chance to get your family together, to see old friends and to let people know you care about them without being weird! It is even a chance to make friends, to volunteer, to help someone less fortunate than you. Whatever you do at Christmas time, I wish you a very merry time and hope that it runs smoothly, and you are not like me burning the midnight oil on Christmas Eve doing the wrapping up you should have done in August!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
By Cressida Landless
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