I'm questioning traditions round here. I kind of hate the big family gatherings. They're too noisy and I'm over-sensitive to my sister who invariably goes on a *hilarious* critique of me when I was 17. More than 30 f**king years ago.

I'm not sorry that the past two years have been cancelled, but also, without get-togethers a lot of the Christmas spirit seems lost. I'm not sure how to proceed when the whole covid nightmare becomes less of a threat (which we hope will happen as we don't want to hide forever). But I'm not sure I want to revert to the way things were.