Afternoon all,
If you have time to read this it may be that you are a) really organised b) not celebrating Christmas c) spending Christmas alone. The assumption tends to be that people don’t want to spend the day on their own. But how wrong that assumption is. Ross Davies spent his first Christmas alone when a snowstorm led to his flight being cancelled. But he quite enjoyed it. He doesn’t really like turkey so had Indian takeaway himself. Among the readers who got in touch to tell us what they will be eating on the day on their own is James, who was delightfully specific - spare ribs, beef and black bean sauce, egg fried rice, two banana fritters and two cans of coke. Now you know.
The people who choose to be alone at ChristmasWe also know exactly what Josie will be eating on Christmas day. To the pea. She’ll have one roast potato, two boiled potatoes, the turkey skins are binned, the cranberry juice is measured, it’s Brussels sprouts-heavy and the Christmas pudding is a low-fat version. If one pea drops on the floor it will be replaced. Josie has a condition which means she never feels full. She gets pretty angry so her mum, as well as planning out her dinner, has a few strategies: Adapt, distract, substitute and be sneaky.
Prader-Willi and not feasting at ChristmasHow’d this be for a plot for a 90s teen film? Two sisters take their seven children on walkabout for years in the Australian outback. They live much the way people 40,000 years ago did – walking from sunrise to sunset looking for water and food. Their children grow up this way. Until one day, they are asked to join a settled community. They taste sugar for the first time and they like it. But moving into the modern world involved all sorts of japes. They started taking stuff from the shop because they weren’t aware they had to pay and when they were given money they had no idea what to do with it so they buried it. Only this isn’t a 90s teen flick, this is the Pintupi nine.
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