This year’s relaxing of lockdown rules really does have the effect of giving your past Christmases an extra rosy glow
The pandemic has obviously made 2020 an incredible ordeal, but the year has one final kick in the nethers for us, in the shape of the approaching five-day period within which lockdown rules are relaxed.
I realise this had to happen, as people want to have some sort of Christmas this year, and I understand the time has to be limited, because for every day that we relax the rules, we have to increase restrictions and sacrifice a goat, or whatever. I get all that. What this has meant, though, is that we have a five-day period within which you have to cram as much family time as possible. The ticking clock of a countdown to renewed restrictions is the ultimate Asian mother guilt device. I have visions of my own saying, “Oh, so you want to go to sleep instead of spending this limited time with your family? You can sleep as much as you like when I’m dead.”