I would like to start wassailing our plot this year - maybe not on Christmas Day though, the eve or weekend before? (1st Christmas having it).

We keep our pressies for the afternoon and open them in front of the fire while waiting for the turkey to cook. After all the mad rushing around visiting is over.

And I have a personal tradition since the year I was 15 - having a beverage (usually of an alcoholic variety) in the room with the tree, only tree lights on, after dark, a couple of days before Christmas. Sitting on the floor reflecting on the year by myself (was a nice time when mum and dad were out some evening and all the others were watching a film in the other room - could be a bit of a madhouse with 6 of us and M&D) - I still manage to do this every year and it is a nice quiet time of reflection for me.