What is your favourite festive film/book or both?
An oldie but a goodie. Frank Carpra’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. We watch it every year, lights off, sherry in hand, hankies at the ready. So many great scenes but the one where he feels trapped, tells Donna Reed he doesn’t want to marry anyone and then ends up kissing her, is sublime. The whole film is a fantastically powerful demonstration of what love can do.
Favourite childhood memory for the season?
When I was about six, my mum made me a fairy dress complete with wings, wand and crown. She must have spent hours on it. I wish I could just transport myself back and experience again that mix of excitement, disbelief and joy I felt when I saw it. I still have the dress in a box safely stowed away. Sadly the crown, wand and wings are no more.
Tree, real or artificial. Why?
Real. Love the smell of it and I don’t care about the dropped needles. When else would you get to drag a tree into your house and decorate it with shiny things?
Bucks Fizz or Mulled Wine or other?
Ah now, this is an interesting one because we have a cupboard full of drinks we only get stuck into at Christmas … Advocaat anyone? Ginger wine? Cherry Brandy? There’s something so wintry and warming about them and they have their moment of glory over Christmas and then go and lie down for another year.
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