We are (not) at a party…

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Some years ago I worked for a small company where, on 23 December, the boss changed the answerphone message to explain that we’d all left early to go to the office Christmas party.

Sometime in mid-February, one of us phoned in from outside and discovered that we were still at the office Christmas party. Which is, I realise, rather how things have been looking on this blog.

However – while on the surface here I’ve been wishing everyone a merry Christmas for th...