For our family, this is as much a part of Christmas as a Festival of Ten Lessons and Carols from Kings
My husband will shoo us to the sitting room, withdraw a shiny black long-playing record from its ancient, crumbling sleeve and place it on the turntable
This Christmas, then, the following unchanging ritual will be observed, after the fuselage of the turkey has been borne back to the larder, the crystallised ginger from Fortnum & Mason and the tooth-achingly sweet candied fruits that have furnished forth the festive table opened, and the crackers pulled.
When he did this the first time our children were amazed, as up to that point in their young and tech-centric lives they’d never seen a record-player before. They were quiteas if the point of the ritual was the spinning vinyl, not whatever sound was coming out of the two ancient speakers.
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