On the BEST day of CHRISTMAS

‘NOTHING IS AS EXCITING AS PUTTING OUT YOUR STOCKING’

Anstey Harris lives in Kent.

For me, Christmas Eve is about the stockings: the anticipation of that weight on your covers when you wake up; that woollen crunch as you move your legs.

For us, everything in the stocking is wrapped except the walnuts, apple and satsuma that mark the end of the gifts. It’s an art – and a family tradition – to find presents that look like chocolate bars (or vice versa) to fool the stocking emptier!

The stocking traditions in our house go back to the 1960s, when we lived next door to a lady called