A Family Affair
Christmas gets unexpectedly intimate.
It had been a dreadful, lonely year, but Christmas was less than a week away. Thanks to government stupidity and repeated lockdowns, I'd been alone except for a few brief months over the summer, so I looked forward to some company. The stresses of lockdown had been almost unbearable for everyone, so we decided to have a proper family get-together for the first time in many years. Now the latest panicked lockdown had been...