Whilst your relatives are sleeping off Christmas dinner, you can jot down all those fabulous ideas you had after your third helping of brandy-soaked Christmas Pudding.

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The steam of the Christmas pudding drifts across a background of pawnshops and sweated labour, and in a double sense the ghost of Scrooge stands beside the dinner table.

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Those supermarket donations are being boxed together with more seasonal goods like stuffing, chocolates and Christmas pudding to make festive hampers for people who would normally treat Christmas Day like any other.

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The New York Times ridiculed the movie as an "indigestible Christmas pudding from the British whimsy factory responsible for such reasonably palatable confections as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary".

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As a child growing up in Langham I knew of this odd 25-foot tall, 40-foot wide Christmas pudding of a building on the edge of the airfield where my father, somewhat unsuccessfully, first tried to teach me to drive.

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Many of us are lucky enough to recall with pleasure the Christmases of our childhood: the gifts left by the chimney for Father Christmas, carols sung in biting cold weather, nativity plays, the warm glow we felt as Mother carried in the flaming Christmas pudding decorated with holly.

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On Christmas Day, you will be able to down as much pudding as you like, safe in the knowledge that you are wearing fashion's equivalent of an airbrush.

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