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Edel Coffey: Get stressed out or blessed out – the choice is yours

The best antidote to the contagion of pre-Christmas panic is a dose of humility and thankfulness, but it’s up to you to take the medicine

Everything will get done this Christmas; it’s your choice whether you do it with good grace or a bad temper

So it’s the last weekend before Christmas, the one where we are in danger of temporarily losing our minds. The weekend where we will possibly buy three tiny jars of cloves instead of just one and will then watch them ossify before we ever get to use them. The weekend where we will possibly buy all sorts of jars of relishes and sauces that we would ordinarily never dream of buying, never mind eating.

But ...