Saturday on the Links

Not very many links this morning because of being up till midnight with the Great Present Wrapping Extravaganza of 2015. It’s important to get out all the presents and wrap them before Christmas Eve so that you can discover, to your horror, that in getting all the children everything on their lists (and stopping to ask yourself what on earth were you thinking) you have committed a grave error. The child who asked for twenty Star Wars toys, the child who asked for three books, the child who asked for a “heart and a toy flower”, when you lay all their little packages out and compare them, it doesn’t exactly look even. And if Christmas is about anything, it’s about perfect fairness, it’s about each child carefully going around to discover what every other child got, it’s about backing into a corner with your sorrow and unmet expectations to whine over your enormous chocolate Santa. So as soon as I’ve pushed publish on this I’ll be toddling off into the horrific wilderness of the shops on the weekend before Christmas, so that all the children will continue to believe in the false hope that Santa loves them equally. And then I’ll be collapsing onto the couch to finish watching The Hog Father, which is the best Christmas movie of all time.

Here is a helpful guide for the last few days of Christmas. What should you do each day? You’ll probably be wandering around in a fog of confusion. This post will surely help you.

And what if you feel like baking? First you should repress that desire, shove it somewhere where you can rediscover it in March or April. But if you insist, here is a helpful baking guide.

And finally, when was Jesus born? Can we even know? This is an interesting look at some possible times.

Next week I will be blogging in a light and cheerful way, about the Christmas carols I hate most, about fun or terrible Christmases of the past, and anything else that might be amusing and not stressful to anyone at all, least of all me. Have a lovely day!