With the possible exception of my friend Sebastian, who approaches the entire festive season with precision planning that would put some of the greatest strategic minds in history to shame, is mostly a woman’s work.Present-shopping, tree-sourcing, decorating, food-buying, house- cleaning, spare bed-making, child-managing, granny-wrangling, teacher-gifting, soaking the turkey in a bucket of whatever Nigella says, remembering to cater for the inevitable , checking the council website for revised rubbish collections – in the vast majority of families, those tasks (and endless more) fall to the lady of the house.Blokes tend to focus more on the lunchtime drinking aspects of the festive period. As one friend said to me recently of her dear husband: ‘He’s basically p***** between now and new year.’
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