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    3. Celebrate ‘bring your tree to work’ day

    Take your old Christmas tree into the office. Tell everyone you’re taking it to the recycling centre in the afternoon. Surreptitiously decorate it during your tea break.

    4. Make a fresh start

    It’s time to set aside all your old work-avoidance routines, and come up with some brand new ones. You need something you can continually check up on while you’re supposed to be getting stuff done. Try putting a webcam on your cat.

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    10 ways to cope with the return to work by Tim Dowling

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    Counting the cost of Christmas Being a divorced gay parent makes the festive season frantic – and expensive… Illustration: Rob Biddulph for the Observer

    Counting the cost of Christmas

    Being a divorced gay parent makes the festive season frantic – and expensive…

    Illustration: Rob Biddulph for the Observer

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    The Long Winter (1940)Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novel – the sixth of the Little House series – is set in South Dakota in 1880, when Laura and her family are stranded for seven months in blizzards. When Christmas day comes round – with no trains getting through – the children have to make do with threadbare presents and watery soup. But the family make up for it when the snow thaws and they re-stage Christmas in May. This time there’s freshly made bread, cranberries, mashed potatoes and a huge turkey. Plates are piled up once, then again. “Lord, we thank Thee for all Thy bounty,” says Pa, before starting to play the fiddle

    The Long Winter (1940)
    Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novel – the sixth of the Little House series – is set in South Dakota in 1880, when Laura and her family are stranded for seven months in blizzards. When Christmas day comes round – with no trains getting through – the children have to make do with threadbare presents and watery soup. But the family make up for it when the snow thaws and they re-stage Christmas in May. This time there’s freshly made bread, cranberries, mashed potatoes and a huge turkey. Plates are piled up once, then again. “Lord, we thank Thee for all Thy bounty,” says Pa, before starting to play the fiddle

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    I wish it could be Boxing Day every day Boxing Day had always been special for Peter Jones and his wife, Kate, and after tragedy struck he decided he needed that sense of freedom a little more often… Read on

    I wish it could be Boxing Day every day

    Boxing Day had always been special for Peter Jones and his wife, Kate, and after tragedy struck he decided he needed that sense of freedom a little more often… Read on

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    A Christmas Carol (1843)As the ghosts give Scrooge a tour of his past, present and future, they stop by the house of Scrooge’s clerk, Bob Cratchit. Here they find Bob’s wife, two older children and the angelic Tiny Tim, with his crutch and iron frame. Goose is served with mashed potatoes, apple sauce and “hissing hot” gravy. “There never was such a goose,” the narrator tells us, and the bird is stripped to the bone. The only bum note is struck when Bob proposes a toast to Scrooge, “the Founder of the Feast”. Meanwhile, the man himself watches outside, and even he starts to crack a little More of the best Christmas lunches pics here

    A Christmas Carol (1843)
    As the ghosts give Scrooge a tour of his past, present and future, they stop by the house of Scrooge’s clerk, Bob Cratchit. Here they find Bob’s wife, two older children and the angelic Tiny Tim, with his crutch and iron frame. Goose is served with mashed potatoes, apple sauce and “hissing hot” gravy. “There never was such a goose,” the narrator tells us, and the bird is stripped to the bone. The only bum note is struck when Bob proposes a toast to Scrooge, “the Founder of the Feast”. Meanwhile, the man himself watches outside, and even he starts to crack a little


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