It’s not cool, but I love Christmas

I love the holiday and choosing gifts and lazing around in the afternoon rubbing a belly full of chocolate and apricot squares (a tradition in my family) and playing trivial pursuit and waking up to the boxing day test match.

I love christmas drinks and tinsel and the smell of pine trees in the lounge room. I love the time we are given to spend away from work, that thing which can be all consuming and encroach into every space we have until it is waking up that feels like a chore.

In ode to my love of the festive season, I will be writing random posts here and there about the gifts I would like to give this year. To start, I’ll go with the obvious.

This Christmas, consider giving a gift that keeps on giving.

You could start with a condom, or a chicken, or health education for a pregnant woman.