Daphne Bramham: Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner this year?

At holiday time, all the census stuff about changing families suddenly becomes real and personal.
It’s the rare family now that is of the traditional kind (mom, dad and kids) with grandma and grandpa, uncles, aunts and cousins living nearby. Perhaps it’s why reading Dylan Thomas’s Child’s Christmas in Wales makes people of a certain age nostalgic and a bit weepy.
“One Christmas was so much like another,” begins the poem, which is itself both nostalgic and hila