Rushing about like mad over Christmas? Here’s why you should stop
Where once our house was festooned with cards depicting donkeys beaming down on baby Jesus and the like, now I mostly get gold-embossed ones from luxury brands.
Christmas hasn’t been the same since I gave up God for sex.
What a wanton trade-off that seems in retrospect all these decades later, but there you go. It is, in fact, the truth – or at least the truth as I glibly spun it in the ensuing years to friends who wanted to know why the daughter of a Presbyterian minister from a small mining town in South Africa had chucked in the faith she was born into without so much as a rueful backward glance.
Charis PerkinsLife & Leisure editorCharis Perkins edits The Australian Financial Review's weekly lifestyle liftout, covering the arts, fashion, design, travel, wine, fine dining, sports, motoring and more. Life & Leisure is published online and in the Friday and weekend editions. Email Charis at cperkins@afr.com
