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Starting the Christmas preparations early isn’t necessarily hyping it up – in my case it’s an attempt to minimise last-minute panic and exhaustion. It’s also a family Christmas tradition, although I haven’t actually got any family left now. But my parents kept a shop, and Christmas was their busiest time, so my mother had to have her preparations well in hand as she had to work right up to about 6 pm on Christmas Eve – and I got roped in too, as soon as I was old enough.

And by then we had usually all caught colds or flu from the customers….

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