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Christmas time again

  Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, the tree, the gifts, the carols, all of it.   But, to be honest, I sort of lost interest in Christmas for a couple of years immediately following my parents’ divorce, but then after having Liam and Luka, things really perked up again and the tree was put up with more gusto than before and Boney M was played loudly from the 1 st of November.     Last year was a very sad year as we planned our cross-continent move to Australia and everything was done for the last time, the last Christmas, the last New Year, the last supper, like a bunch of convicts being banned to, well Australia.   Well, that is how I perceived it in a bit of a self-induced haze. Immediately following Christmas, the tree was dismantled and handed over to my mother-in-law who still had the first ever Christmas tree erected in the manger still smelling a bit like frankincense and having been chewed on by the cows present at that momentous occasion.   So this year, de