Christmas with Keepers

A short scene from Keepers

Grandma took charge of Christmas.
In her airless dining room they squeezed elbow to elbow around the oval table laid with a white linen cloth – and Grandma’s silver and the china which had come with Grandma’s own grandmother from the old country a hundred years earlier – and sweated their way through chicken, duck, roast potatoes and all the trimmings.

Stuffed as they were, they still found room for slices of the Christmas pudding which had been hanging for mont...