BBC News
By Hazel Shearing
image captionMick and Debbie Thompson hope next Christmas will look more like life before the pandemic
With infections rising and worries about the festive period growing, some families have decided Christmas isn t worth the risk and are either cancelling their plans or making last-minute changes.
Mick Thompson is still annoyed about placing third with his wife, Debbie, in the family Zoom quiz at the weekend. Perhaps that s an understatement - quite distraught is how he puts it. But when the initial red mist cleared, the pair had to address another issue that came up during the call: the annual Boxing Day get-together.