Which is the best month?
Twelve months stretch ahead of us, each with a character of its own. Here six writers choose their favourite
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DECEMBER by Charles Nevin
What other month can hold a candle to December? Yule, Yalda, Saturnalia, Hannukah, Christmas and more: when else can you find such feasts of fun, generosity and goodwill? What more benign times are there than when children hear the magic creak on the midnight stair, auntie sips her cream sherry and gets ever chattier, uncle unwraps his socks (again), or granddad gently snores off his lunch, with his mouth still open and his paper crown rakishly askance? Exactly.
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