Christmas traditions; Digital nun; Childless by circumstance

Listeners share their favourite Christmas traditions. We hear about the little rituals and customs, however strange or unconventional, that make your Christmas so special.

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Sister Catherine Wybourne is a Benedictine nun who lives in a community in Herefordshire and who carries out part of her ministry through twitter as @digitalnun. For the last in our series visiting women in their kitchens, our reporter Henrietta Harrison visited Sister Catherine to find out more about living under the rule of St Benedict.

Jody Day runs a support group for women who are childless by circumstance – women who wanted to have children but haven’t. The last time she was on Woman’s Hour talking about her book ‘Rocking the Life Unexpected’ we were inundated with messages from women who were in the same situation. On Christmas Eve she joins Jane Garvey to talk about how to make the most of Christmas as a childless woman. How to deal with your parents’ assumptions, or disappointment; how to enjoy being an aunt without turning into a childcare martyr and how to think about your own sadness at a time when you might be continually told ’it's all about the children’.