As a good (secular) Jewish girl, I adore Christmas. Top of my favourite ritual is listening to the King’s Carol Service on Radio 4 at 3.00pm on Christmas Eve. Although my husband is the cook, I am chief table garnisher, so I can be found singing ‘to a lonely cattle shed’ (‘Once in Royal David’s City’) with tears in my eyes while putting finishing touches to homemade truffles.
I always avoid Christmas TV specials. Nothing is ever as good as watching Morecambe & Wise as a child and the repeats just make me feel what I am fast becoming: Old.
More Christmas rituals – from David Cameron, Clare Balding and Jilly Cooper, among others – in the Spectator’s Christmas issue.
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