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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lucy Mangan

Digested week: through the Christmas perineum and out the other side

A near-deserted Royal Mile in Edinburgh on New Year’s Eve
A near-deserted Royal Mile in Edinburgh on New Year’s Eve. So bad was the weather it put paid to many festivities. What joy! Photograph: Andy Buchanan/PA

Monday

And so we find ourselves again at the Christmas perineum, the time between the end of the yuletide celebrations and before the new year shenanigans begin, and a phrase so awful I have felt compelled to use it as often as possible ever since the dark day I learned it about five years ago. Sorry.

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