Stop, Look, Listen – a weekend festive starter kit

Ten Christmas shortcuts to help you get your bauble on

(My Christmas card from the Pet Shop Boys in 2013)

Two-and-a-half-weeks to go. Argh. My work plate is bursting this year in the run-up, sprouts and globs of gravy dripping over the side, making me feel more stressed than festive. This won’t do, especially as I have a nine-year-old in the house for whom this might be his last pro…