Forget prepping the dinner, this year my advice is to spend at least an hour on prepping an exclusion list of topics that must remain strictly off-limits.
Also on the naughty step are your husband, your mother-in-law and poor Uncle Bert, whose 'crime' was to call his 19-year-old grand-niece 'a cracker', as the pair of them pulled one.
Soon, your extended family will arrive, their journeys so far unblighted by any mishaps, judging by the 67 WhatsApp messages giving you a blow-by-blow account of their progress.
Wherever generations come together, the prospect of 'cancelling' – when a person believed to have done or said something inappropriate is shunned or boycotted – comes, too.
What NOT to say to your woke kids at Christmas The turkey is basting, the veggies are prepped and the plant-based mulch is defrosting for the vegans.
