As the national alcohol recruitment drive of Xmas gets into full swing, as celebrities smirk through tinsel adorned television and fake snow gravitates towards their blushered faces, make sure to throw caution to the wind-machine and smile.
And if a tear blurs the Christmas lights in an unexpected moment of nostalgia or pure undiluted frustration remember, this is your birthright. Family is a collection of memories discussed and disputed over a life time between a group of people fatally linked by blood. Merry Xmas.