Christmas Day? Groundhog Day? I can’t tell the difference | Deborah Orr

Just because your children have left home doesn’t mean they don’t want a traditional Christmas – just like the ones they used to knowOne Sunday evening in late November, I popped in at the house of a couple I know, on a whim. At that point, hard as it now is to believe, I had barely registered Christmas was coming. My friends had, though. Marion – let’s call her – had a large pile of colourful sundries to the left of her on the table she sat at, and four equal