A Border Terrier lies curled in a basket in a quiet hallway corner, chin on the rim and eyes half closed, while through an open doorway behind it a lamplit living room spills over with visitors' legs, torn wrapping paper, a paper crown on the carpet and a half-eaten mince pie on a plate.

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What Day Is It?

It happens every year. Somewhere between Christmas and New Year, the calendar simply dissolves. Breakfast is a mince pie and a slab of cheese. You’re in pyjamas at three in the afternoon, and nobody in the house can say with any confidence whether it’s Tuesday. Lovely for a day. By the fourth, strangely unmooring.

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