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SARAH VINE: With the possible exception of my friend Sebastian, who approaches the entire holiday season with precision planning that may put some of the world's finest strategic minds to shame, Christmas is mainly a woman's occupation. Present-shopping, tree-sourcing, decorating, food-buying, house-cleaning, spare bed-making, granny-wrangling, teacher-gifting, and remembering to provide for the family's basic needs - in the vast majority of households, those duties (and often more) fall to the lady of the house. Blokes tend to honed in more on the festive season's lunchtime drinking aspects. 'He's essentially p***** between now and next year,' one friend told me recently.' I always remember my ex-husband's enquiring vaguely, usually around teatime on December 24, what 'we'd bought for the children.'