Yup. My favourite Christmas memories include how Dad is allergic to those paper crowns that come out of Christmas crackers. Let me explain. Every year, we’d wait eagerly for Christmas lunch – even willing to miss the Christmas Top Of The Pops – and watch with delight as my Mum insisted on pulling a cracker with my Dad and we’d all laugh as he started to heave and blow, claiming that the hat was constricting his blood flow and he was in danger of passing out … all until he took it off a minute later and we’d all grin […]