Sunday Rest: change. Word Not To Use Today.

 Look, I'm sure that having roasted pineapple stuffed with North African spices and squirrel steaks would make a change for Christmas lunch. And I'm sure that serving your sprouts roasted with reindeer bacon and sliced clementines would look very pretty.

But you can do that any day of the year (if you really must). This is Christmas. It's neither a time for either spending all day in the kitchen nor for change.

Christmas is about having a completely traditional meal (whatever that is where you are) and no one doing any more work than they have to.

It won't entirely put an end to all the squabbling, resentment, and indigestion, but it'll probably help.

Word Not To Use Today: change. This word comes from the Old French changier, from the Latin cambīre, to exchange or barter.