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Our favourite celebrities share their Christmas Day traditions
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Wander in to the shops and there’s no escaping it: Christmas is coming. Seemingly getting earlier every year, the pressure to deliver the perfect Christmas is immense. From TV ads showing sumptuous fo
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Whether you call it Christmas, Winterval or just ‘the holidays’, the period between late December and early January is cocoon time: a cessation of work and routine activities. It begins with tradition
From blow-up snowmen to silly family games – these familiar faces have their rituals, just like the rest of us