From thermals in the garden to doorstep turkey parcels, UK families share their solutions to getting together safely
Thermals will be essential, there has been talk of ski clothes, and one family member has sourced “a sort of outdoor sleeping bag-blanket thing” that will doubtless prove invaluable. When Pauline Ackroyd and her family get together on Christmas day, they do not intend to let the Leeds December weather interrupt a family meal that they have been tentatively planning for months.
Ackroyd’s husband Ian had a bone marrow transplant in August, and while one adult daughter moved back home during the last lockdown, the couple have only seen their other two children and adored seven-year-old granddaughter outdoors since spring. “So Christmas was really quite important.”
