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Merry Christmas!

For what I think is the first time ever, I'm spodding on Christmas Day. This is because, for what is definitely the first time ever, I'm spending Christmas Day in my own home, on my own. Shortly my family will show up here, we'll do Christmas Day type things, and then they will go home.

This feels on the one hand slightly odd; ever since I left home, Christmas has always been a time for sleeping in strange beds, on parents' floors, or suchlike; it's been part of the standard routine. But on the other hand, it's also always been a part of the standard routine that's really annoyed me; and now that enough of my family live in Cambridge and within walking distance of my place, I hurriedly seized the opportunity to organise a one-day Christmas event so that everyone could sleep in their own beds both before and afterwards.

The downside, of course, is that this means I have to cook the Christmas dinner :-) But I managed that last year with Mum's help, so I'm reasonably confident of managing it again…

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How did it go in the end?

Excellently, thank you. I made one or two minor errors (slightly soggy stuffing and slightly overcooked veg), but nothing that seriously impacted our enjoyment of the meal, and nothing I won't know how to put right next time. And this time it was definitely me in charge of the kitchen, doing the planning and thinking and so forth, so I'm now a lot more confident that I can do the same again some other time. I hope to cook roast dinners for plenty of people in the coming year :-)