Forget about Christmas past, it’s the present we’re reinventing. This year sees new Christmas traditions being forged across the country by some of our most forward-thinking women as they celebrate the end of a bruiser of a year.

With one cooking Christmas dinner for the residents of an aged care home, another raising a pig for the Christmas ham, and a third insisting on karaoke sessions between courses, there’s inspiration here for us all to do Christmas in our own sweet way.