On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. – Nigella Lawson
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. – Nigella Lawson
I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out. – Nigella Lawson
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. – Nigella Lawson
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, its usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is fairy lights, which we boringly refer to as Christmas lights. – Sloane Crosley