Because Christmas is all about the children, as we established when we were children ourselves, therefore everyone's preferred option is to be with the bairns, and they can't be everywhere. Come midlife, you have adult children and possibly their children! to think about as well as your aged parents. Throw in a divorce or two in one or more of these generations and it all gets positively byzantine.
I am looking forward to being ancient, without agency in this matter, shuffled off to whichever member of my family hasn't come up with a good enough reason not to have me that year. Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist.
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