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This recipe absolutely perfect for Boxing day, whether you’ve had enough of turkey and want a plant-based dish to eat in front of ‘Love Actually’…

Ah, Christmas…an excuse to kick back. And what better accompaniment to the Christmas treats than some festive films?

Who doesn’t like a Christmas-themed film, or a sing-along over the festive period? Well, authors often find themselves indulging in a little Christmas vibe in the middle of summer.

To balance the Christmas loveliness of other Boldwood posts, I’m turning to the dark side. Today, this is all about the festive music I don’t like, classics that, IMHO, shouldn’t be.

It all began so well.  I’d been invited to spend two days over Christmas with my brother and his young family in their gorgeous Sussex home…

More years ago than I care to count,  I spent a year in Sudan teaching English in a school in a sizeable town on the Blue Nile. Christmas shopping was tricky.

Many of the above photos and their related Christmas tradition anecdotes feature in my books. My favourite Christmas photograph is above…

Coming at the end of what has already been a very difficult year, here are a few tips to help get you through the season a little more calmly…

My favourite Christmas poem is Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Oxen’. It alludes to an old belief that on Christmas night, animals were given the gift of speech.