Merry Christmas! Here is the 2010 Dark Iris Christmas Card, complete with full checklist of things to do over the holiday period.

• Make a snow angel. Possibly postponed until February. (Who knew the UK would get covered in the white-stuff when I sent these to print eh?)
• Eat a mince pie… Christmas cake… Christmas pudding… even though you really don’t like them, you have to get into the ‘festive spirit’, as Christmas = dried fruit. In everything.
• Spend too much. Pay it off by approximately October, when the whole ruddy thing starts again.
• Buy massive tin of sweets. Eat all the good ones first. Try and convince all newly arriving guests to eat the ones you don’t want. Don’t sulk when they won’t.
• Receive a card from someone you have forgotten. When meeting them by chance in the street, remember to exclaim how rubbish Royal Mail has been this year.
• Drink mulled wine. Tip! Emergency mulled wine = red wine + pot pourri.
  Stir furiously until chunks dissolve.
  It’s what Nigella does. She just doesn’t tell anyone.