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‘I wonder how Christmas ever caught on?’

What all mums secretly want for Christmas is a ticket for one to a deserted island, where Liam Hemsworth licks the roe from virgin sturgeons from your navel ‘neath a tropical palm. Because, for mums, Christmas is exhausting.

During frantic Yuletide preparations – the holly bedecking, the chronic hand cramp from penning 2,000 Christmas cards (gives new meaning to ‘cardiac arrest’), the sleep deprivation

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