For the Spectator’s Christmas survey, we asked for some favourite seasonal rituals – and what to avoid at Christmas.
Helen Lederer
I enjoy the annual eating of chocolate money on Christmas Eve — it has been bought to be stuffed in the toe of each stocking — and then having to do a search of all the sweet shops for replacements, by which time everyone has sold out of chocolate coins. Sometimes two trips are required if the second lot also gets eaten before the stocking is handed over.
Playing a board game that has not been road-tested is always a bad idea. My worst one was a charity-shop purchase for wine snobs, which was not only complicated beyond belief, but also had bits missing.
David Cameron
On Christmas morning, we all open Santa’s offerings together. So all three children and two adults are in bed together, opening our stockings.
I would avoid family arguments. You’ve got to get outside at some stage on Christmas Day and go for a walk, which helps to defuse any tensions.
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